Two women, one aged 60 and the other in her 40’s were admitted to hospital after becoming seriously ill when they drank an aloe vera juice drink contaminated with horse tranquilliser.

The horse tranquilliser was confirmed to be Ketamine, an anaesthetic drug which slows down the breathing.

One of the women collapsed into a ‘vegetative state’ after only consuming a small amount of the juice and had to be revived by paramedics.

The women are believed to have bought the drinks whilst attending an Asian carnival in Leicester called the Abbey Mela, an event put on by a local school.

Leicestershire Police have now launched an investigation in to how the drinks came to be contaminated.

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