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The Bonnaroo campgrounds on Saturday, June 12, 2010.
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The Bonnaroo campgrounds on Saturday, June 12, 2010.
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MANCHESTER, Tenn. — Extreme heat is believed to have caused the death of a man at the Bonnaroo music festival.
According to Frank Watkins, a captain for the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department, the 29-year-old man collapsed early Sunday morning in front of staff at a medical tent on the festival grounds near Manchester.
WSMV-TV in Nashville reported the man’s core temperature spiked at 108 degrees. His identity has not been released.
Watkins said there was no immediate sign of trauma or foul play. A toxicology screen, to be done as part of an autopsy in Nashville, could show if drugs or alcohol were involved.
The toxicology screen will take several weeks.
More details as they develop online and in Tuesday’s News Sentinel.
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