3 Dead, 4 Hospitalized After Drug Overdose in Pittsburgh: Reports

This is the apartment building on the city's South Side where police say multiple people are dead and others are hospitalized in what they're calling a "medical situation" in Pittsburgh on Sept. 22, 2019. Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo

Three people have died and four others were hospitalized in Pittsburgh after what police have said is a rash of drug overdoses on Sept. 22.

In a statement released by the official Pittsburgh website, police said that the early morning “medical incident suggests this was a drug-related overdose.”