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Festival-goer dies in hospital | |
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A 26-year-old man has died after a suspected drugs overdose at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset. | A 26-year-old man has died after a suspected drugs overdose at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset. |
The man was found unconscious by festival staff in the Park Farm area of the site in the early hours of Saturday. | The man was found unconscious by festival staff in the Park Farm area of the site in the early hours of Saturday. |
A spokesman for Avon and Somerset police said that a full post-mortemexamination would now be carried out. | |
Police said that crime at the festival was on a similar level to 2005. | |
As of Sunday morning, there had been 171 reported crimes, down on the 180 incidents at this time in 2005. | |
Of these 124 were drug related, compared to 135 in 2005. | |
The main non-drug related crime continues to be theft from tents with 31reported incidents - but with 30,000 more people on site than the lastfestival. | |
Police said that so far 134 people had been arrested - the vast majority fordrugs related offences. | |
More than 1,000 festival-goers have suffered injuries because of mud turning the sprawling site into a slimy obstacle course - 32 have needed hospital treatment. |