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Two Die at Bonnaroo Music Fest in Tenn.
By BILL POOVEY
Associated Press Writer
MANCHESTER, Tenn. - Two fans died during the weekend Bonnaroo music festival, which drew more than 150,000 people, and investigators said drugs appear to have been involved.
They were the first deaths in the festival's three-year history.
"When there is drug usage and the heat has been like it has, we have been expecting it every year. ... This year our luck ran out," Coffee County Sheriff Steve Graves said.
Preliminary toxicology tests showed both victims had been using drugs, investigator Dale Brissey said.
Temperatures reached 90 degrees or higher on Friday and Saturday. "The high humidity, high heat, alcohol and drugs - it's not a good combination," Brissey said.
The festival, at a farm halfway between Nashville and Chattanooga, offered a diverse lineup that included Bob Dylan, Dave Matthews and The Dead.
Graves said there were hundreds of drug charges and some assault charges, but officers just handed out citations for possession of small quantities of illegal drugs.
"Our jail is too small to put that many in there at one time." he said.
Graves said there was less violence than last year, when there were stabbings in the crowd.
