Five ambulances are in attendance for a medical incident at SkyCity Auckland. Video / Dean Purcell
The drug behind a public overdose in downtown Auckland yesterday is now being forensically examined by government scientists.
Police have this morning confirmed the seized substance that caused three people to overdose outside Auckland's SkyCity yesterday morning has been sent to ESR for testing, a police media spokesperson said.
Meanwhilethe three people - two men and a woman - who are believed to have overdosed on a synthetic substance are now recovering in Auckland Hospital.
In a statement yesterday, SkyCity said St John and Police were called after a staff member noticed three people were unwell.
"They just passed out. It wasn't good. They were incoherent, put it that way," a man sitting outside SkyCity asking for change said.
Last month Wellington Police warned members of the public about a rare and highly dangerous methamphetamine-like substitute called Isopropylbenzylamine that might be doing the rounds.