Hyderabad, Nov 6 (IANS) Suspected drug overdose claimed the life of a 28-year-old man in Hyderabad while two others, including his live-in partner, were taken ill, police said.

Ahmed Ali, a resident of the Kalapather area in the old city, succumbed while being shifted to a hospital by his friends in the early hours of Thursday.

According to the police, he had been staying in a rented flat in a gated community in Shivrampally along with his friend, identified as Zohra, 28, a native of Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool.

Ali, along with Zohra and his friend Syed Bin Salah, consumed drugs, including opium, at the flat on Wednesday. Ali reportedly began vomiting blood and collapsed. His friends tried to shift him to a hospital, but he died on the way.

Police shifted his body to the Osmania General H

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