Two more people in the Williamsport area have died of apparent drug overdoses, bringing the number of such deaths in the county to three in six days, according to Lycoming County Coroner Charles E. Kiessling Jr.

The latest death involved a city woman in her early 50s who was unresponsive in a home in the 800 block of Hepburn Street about 7:15 p.m. Tuesday and was pronounced dead on arrival at the UPMC Susquehanna Williamsport Regional Medical Center, Kiessling said.

Drug paraphernalia was found in the home near where the woman collapsed, he said. The woman did not live at the address, he added.

The woman’s death comes three days after a 23-year-old Selinsgrove woman, living locally at the Transitional Living Center, was found dead in a restroom at the Red Roof Inn on Route 15 in South Williamsport about 8:45 a.m. Saturday.

Suspected drugs and paraphernalia were found near her body, borough police said.

“She had been in the restroom for an extended period of time,” borough Police Chief Robert Hetner said, declining to elaborate.

Kiessling declined to release the women’s names, saying their identities may be available to the public at a later date.

Toxicology tests will be performed on their bodies as well as on that of a Philadelphia man in his 30s who died in an apartment in the 700 block of West Edwin Street on June 29. The tests should reveal what drugs, or combination of drugs, might have played a role in their deaths, Kiessling said.

“People need to get cleaned or they could end up dead. Sadly, that’s what we’re seeing now,” Kiessling said. “People are playing Russian roulette with their lives.”

Law enforcement officials and other authorities believe that a more potent form of heroin, possibly mixed with fentanyl or other drugs, likely contributed to a wave of overdoses in the region during a three-day period beginning on June 28.

UPMC Susquehanna officials reported last week that their doctors treated a record number of 51 drug overdoses during that period.

A hospital spokesman said Wednesday that the health system has stopped releasing such figures.

Lycoming County was not the only area impacted by the issue.

State police said last week that “multiple drug overdoses occurred throughout northcentral Pennsylvania and that they occurred because of a potentially deadly mixture of heroin and other substances.”