A Derry councillor has warned that a young child could have died after a bag of lethal ecstasy tablets which resemble sweets were left on a busy street in the city at the weekend.
The ecstasy tablets were handed over to the independent councillor Gary Donnelly on Sunday morning after they were found by a grandmother at the top of the Rinmore area in Creggan.
Cllr Donnelly said that the community is 'shocked and angry' at the incident.
"The grandmother rightly said that a young child would have thought these drugs were sweets if they had found them," he said.
"We could have been dealing with a very, very serious situation here and we can only be thankful that it was an adult and not a child who came across these drugs."
He added: "The local community is very angry about this and the potentially lethal risk this posed to young chidlren in the area."
Above - the bag of drugs which were discovered in the Creggan area.
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