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Antwerp Opens Autopsy After Canadian Attendee’s Death at Tomorrowland

Prosecutors cited serious indicators of drug involvement following the sudden collapse of a 35-year-old visitor.

Overview

  • Antwerp prosecutors have ordered an autopsy to determine whether drug consumption played a role in her death.
  • Festival rescue teams performed 45 minutes of on-site resuscitation before she was taken to Universitätsklinikum Antwerpen, where she later died.
  • Organizers expressed condolences to the woman’s family, friends and fellow attendees in an official statement.
  • Officials warned of dangerous synthetic substances circulating at the event, including the so-called “pink powder” known as 2C-B.
  • Tomorrowland continues on a replacement main stage that was erected within 48 hours after a pyrotechnics fire destroyed the original structure.