Synthetic opioid detected in bodies of four people found dead in Melbourne home

Police confirm drug's presence after deaths of boy, 17, and three adults in Broadmeadows last week

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A synthetic opioid has been found in the bodies of four people found dead in a Melbourne home last week, police say.

The bodies of the 17-year-old boy, two men aged 32 and 37, and a 42-year-old woman were discovered at the property in Broadmeadows, in Melbourne's north, in the early hours of 25 June.

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