Neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman followed and confronted the black teenager he is accused of murdering after a police dispatcher told him to back off, prosecutors in the US said.

People who attended a party in nationalist west Belfast and took drugs were tonight being urged to seek urgent medical attention following the deaths of three young men.

The three men who are believed to have died as a result of taking dangerous drugs at a Belfast party have been named.

The RUC has issued a warning about possible killer drugs circulating in Belfast after three men were found dead earlier today.

The RUC is investigating a spate of suspected drug-related deaths in west Belfast after the bodies of three young men were found in two separate houses.