New York's Electric Zoo Festival cut short by drug-related deaths

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The third and final day of Electric Zoo, NYC’s annual electronic music festival, has been cancelled following two deaths.

The city has issued a statement explaining that the cancellation is ‘due to serious health risks’, a decision supported by the event’s promoters.

“During the first two days of the Electric Zoo music festival”, the statement reads, “two concert-goers have died and at least four others became critically ill and have been placed in intensive care at area hospitals. Definitive causes of death have not yet been determined, however, both appear to have involved the drug MDMA.”

“The Electric Zoo organizers have worked with City officials to reduce health risks at this event, but in view of these occurrences, the safest course is to cancel the remaining day of the event.”

The New York Post reports that the deceased have been named as a boy and a girl, aged 20 and 23 respectively, both pronounced dead on Saturday.