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Police and ambulance attend suspected overdose in Swindon town centre

byDaniel Jae Webb
20 March 2020 | 7.36pm
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Police and ambulance are attending to a patient who is thought to have taken an overdose this evening.

Emergency services were called to the scene in Manchester Road at around 6.40pm, following reports of a man collapsed in the street.

Understood to be a rough sleeper the man’s friends told police of how he’d been drinking and taking ‘too many’ tablets throughout the day.

Three police cars, an ambulance, a rapid responder and a paramedic officer attend the incident which was resolved by 7.30pm.

The patient was taken to hospital for treatment.

 

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