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Man dies in fire on Glastonbury site
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 22 June 2016
A man has died after fire broke out at the Glastonbury Festival site earlier this week. The man in his 20s was taken to hospital with “serious burns” and later died from his injuries.
A police spokesperson said: “We were called by the fire service after reports of a man on fire at the Glastonbury festival site at about 5.20pm [on Monday] night. The man suffered serious burns and was taken by air ambulance to Southmead hospital in Bristol. He was transferred to the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham, where he sadly later died. Our enquiries are continuing but we are treating the death as unexplained and do not believe it to be suspicious”.
The exact circumstances surrounding the fire are not clear, though reports suggest it involved a petrol spillage in the Green Fields area of Worthy Farm. Flooding on site then made it difficult for emergency teams to reach the injured man.
The festival site opens to ticketholders today.
