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New Zealand charity working with homeless people in Auckland, New Zealand unknowingly distributed candies filled with a potentially lethal dose of methamphetamine in its food parcels.
Auckland City Mission said staff had started to contact up to 400 people to track down parcels that could contain the sweets.
The amount of methamphetamine was up to 300 times the level someone would usually take and could be lethal.
New Zealand's police have opened a criminal investigation.
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