This is the latest chilling video showing the terrifying Spice epidemic sweeping Manchester.

The footage – shot on Tib Street in the Northern Quarter – shows three people trembling in a catatonic state after apparently taking the drug.

All three are virtually frozen, either standing, lying slumped or squatting.

We revealed a month ago how a potentially deadly strain of the substance, which is still readily available from street dealers despite now being illegal, had been turning people into ‘statues’, paralysed while standing or squatting.

City centre youth charity Lifeshare told how the extra-potent batch of Spice had emerged around the end of February, prompting a series of collapses and a surge in ambulance call-outs.

Charity worker Julie Boyle said it was turning clusters of people into the ‘walking dead’.

On Friday we reported how police had warned of the ‘chaos’ now being caused by the substance after being called to 11 collapses in eight hours in Manchester city centre.

Amanda Croome, chief executive of Manchester’s Booth Centre homeless drop-in, said she was now seeing the kind of scenes shown in the latest video ‘on a regular basis’, adding: “This batch of Spice is particularly bad and the ambulance service is being called out all the time.”