Warning over blue-and-yellow ecstasy pills stamped with the IKEA logo after a 16-year-old girl was taken to hospital
- Police have issued a warning a girl was hospitalised after taking MDMA
- The particular drug was branded with an IKEA logo and was blue and yellow
- Several teenagers have been hospitalised in Pembrokeshire after taking the drug
- It copies another dangerous pill that was pink and branded 'Rolls Royce'
Party-goers have been warned over particularly dangerous blue-and-yellow, IKEA-branded ecstasy tablets after a teenage girl was hospitalised when taking the drug.
Police said the tablets, branded with the IKEA logo, has left a 16-year-old girl seriously ill.
Party-goers have been warned over particularly dangerous blue-and-yellow, IKEA-branded ecstasy tablets after a teenage girl was hospitalised when taking the drug
Officers warned the rogue drug which copies the branding of the Swedish furniture store has been in circulation in recent weeks.
It is believed they are copying another pill, a pink tablet embossed with the Rolls Royce logo that was particularly dangerous.
A spokeswoman for Dyfed Powys Police said: 'We are urging anyone considering taking ecstasy to firstly, not put their health and lives at risk.
'Secondly be particularly careful if offered MDMA named Ikea, blue and yellow tablets branded with the Ikea logo, or Rolls Royce, which are pink tablets embossed with the Rolls Royce logo.
Officers warned the rogue drug which copies the branding of the Swedish furniture store has been in circulation in recent weeks (sto
'In the last month several teenagers have been admitted to hospital in Pembrokeshire suffering the effects of ecstasy including dangerously high heart rates, sweating, and in one instance a patient had to be put on a ventilator.
'The most recent incident being the hospitalisation of a 16-year-old girl last night.
Sian Roberts, of Dyfed Drug and Alcohol Service, said: 'We would like to discourage even the most frequent user of MDMA or ecstasy from using this drug as we are seeing life-threatening symptoms with some batches circulating.
'There is no way of knowing what is in a tablet or powder until after someone has taken it. if someone does buy and take the drug and start to feel ill, they must go to hospital immediately informing medical professionals what they have taken.'
In June, Kyle Pringle, 18, died in Jersey after taking an Ikea branded pill.
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