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One dead at Glastonbury Festival | |
(about 1 hour later) | |
A 26-year-old man has died in Yeovil District Hospital after a suspected drugs overdose at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset. | |
The man, believed to be from the West Midlands, was found unconscious by festival staff in the Park Farm area of the site early on Saturday. | |
A spokesman for Avon and Somerset police said that a full post-mortem examination would now be carried out. | |
His death is not being treated as suspicious, he added. | |
'Tent thefts' | |
Police said crime at the festival at this stage was "slightly down" on 2005 but the number of arrests were "well up". | |
The spokesman said this increase was due to the "proactive operation" of both police and security on site | |
By 0900 BST on Sunday there had been 236 reported crimes, down on the 267 incidents at this time in 2005. | |
Of these 158 were drug related, compared to 183 in 2005. | |
The main non-drug related crime continues to be theft from tents with 41 reported incidents - but with 30,000 more people on site than the last festival. | |
Police said that so far 160 people had been arrested - the vast majority for drugs related offences. | |
More than 1,000 festival-goers have suffered minor ailments. Thirty-two have needed hospital treatment. | |
Numbers at the site are expected to increase on Sunday because of day pass visitors. |