22/05/2015

Four Teenage Boys In Hospital After Taking Unknown Substances

Four teenage boys are being treated in a L'Derry hospital after taking unknown substances.

Police are trying to determine what the boys took before they were admitted to Altnagelvin Hospital on 20 May.

Three of the boys are in a stable condition.

Details on the condition of the fourth boy have not been released.

(LM)

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