The HARD music festival, a two-day event held at the Fairplex in Pomona, is expected to draw more than 125,000 fans for headliners such as electronic musicians Jack U, Robin Schulz, and Ratatat. KTLA5 (via Billboard) reports that the 18-year-old and 19-year-old women were taken to the hospital from the festival on Saturday night.
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The women were hospitalized.
Two women died of a suspected drug overdose after attending HARD Summer at the Fairplex in Pomona Saturday, according to the L.A. County Coroner’s Office. The coroner’s office was told Sunday morning that the two women had died.
Autopsies were expected for this week as investigators seek to uncover exactly what killed the festival goers, notes the LA Times.
Throughout the festival yesterday, which began at Noon and ended at 11 p.m., and reportedly pulled a paid attendance of 65,000, L.A. Weekly saw numerous attendees clearly feeling the effects of heat stroke, intoxication, or a combination of the two.
Just last year, another 19-year-old died from a suspected overdose at the same festival.
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In June, a reveler was pronounced dead at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway during the Electric Daisy Carnival.
