5-year-old BC child overdoses on fentanyl in accidental exposure

Mission, B.C., RCMP confirmed on Tuesday that the fentanyl found in a home where a five-year-old reportedly overdosed was in the form of illicit, street-use fentanyl.

Police were called to a home on Nottman Street after receiving reports of an unresponsive five-year-old on March 20.

A young girl had reportedly overdosed on fentanyl found in the home after touching a jar containing the drug while she was having a bath.