Child dies after falling ill at Camp Bestival Shropshire

A kid has died aft falling sick astatine Camp Bestival successful Shropshire.

The kid was taken to infirmary successful a captious information connected Saturday but died a abbreviated portion later, Staffordshire Police said.

Emergency services were called to the festival tract astatine Weston Park astatine 00:37 BST.

An probe has been launched to find the circumstances of the death, the unit said.

Festival organisers expressed their "deepest sympathies" to the child's family.

A spokesperson for Camp Bestival said: "A kid became poorly connected Friday nighttime and, aft receiving contiguous aesculapian attraction onsite, was taken to infirmary successful an ambulance, wherever they tragically passed away.

"Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the household astatine this unspeakable time, and we volition proceed to enactment them successful immoderate mode we can."

West Midlands Ambulance Service said it was not called to the tract and a backstage ambulance institution was used.

It was the 2nd twelvemonth the festival took spot successful Shropshire. The sister tract successful Dorset has been moving for 15 years.