Two college students in Mumbai were killed and one remains critical after consuming the popular party drug ecstasy at a concert on Saturday.
The incident occurred during a concert at NESCO Exhibition Centre in Goregaon, where the students, identified as Shreya Rai, 24, and Sheetal Salvi, 25, along with another friend, Bismat Singh Amarjit Singh Bhasin, 28, attended the '999999999 Music Concert'.
Rai and Salvi experienced difficulty breathing and collapsed due to dizziness, while Bhasin complained of dizziness and convulsions in the limbs.
The police have arrested six people, including the drug peddler Anand Patel, in connection with the incident.
The organisers of the concert, along with the vice president of NESCO Exhibition Centre, have also been arrested for failing to check for narcotics and not having the proper licensing for alcohol.
