A teenage boy has been arrested after a 17-year-old girl died of a suspected drug overdose at Leeds music festival, police said today.
The boy, also aged 17, was detained on suspicion of supplying drugs. Both teenagers are from the Oldham area of Greater Manchester, police said.
Officers were called to the Bramham Park site, where the music festival is held, following a report that the girl had died shortly after 3.40am today having taken a “combination of drugs”.
It comes after the festival’s Facebook page warned of super-strength drugs being in circulation. “Donkey Kong, Trump and Skype pills have been found in circulation onsite,” the post reads.
“These are very dangerous, high-strength pills, up to three times the normal average adult dose.”
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