Rolling Loud revellers seen collapsing before entering festival venue
Revellers were seen collapsing before they even made it inside Rolling Loud — one of the world’s largest hip-hop festivals in Australia for the first time on Sunday night. One reveller even posed for a selfie as she was stretchered away from the Sydney Showground venue where more than 20,000 people had flocked.
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Revellers were seen collapsing before they even made it inside the venue — while one posed for a selfie on a stretcher — at the final of the weekend’s three “high-risk” festivals.
More than 20,000 people jammed into Sydney Showground on Sunday night for one of the world’s largest hip-hop festivals, Rolling Loud, held in Australia for the first time.
Shortly after the event’s 4pm start time several revellers had already collapsed outside the entry gates.
The event took place in scorching heat.
A young woman was loaded onto a stretcher by private paramedics outside the entrance and posed for a selfie as she was taken away.
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After collapsing, a second woman dressed in a yellow shirt was also taken away.
At least eight people were taken to hospital, including two men in their 20s, one in a serious condition and one in a non-critical condition, two underage girls both in non-critical conditions, a woman in a critical condition and a teenage female in a serious condition.
Three of these hospitalisations were drug related, NSW Health said last night.
Others were sprawled out on chairs being treated by paramedics as another young woman was held upright by two security guards.
Girls were dancing outside the medical centre as they waited for their friends.
But they were asked to move as a young woman was helped in, barely able to stand with two men helping her walk.
Multiple festival goers told The Daily Telegraph they were using MDMA as it was easier to smuggle past police sniffer dogs.
“With the dogs it’s luck,” one reveller said.
One man ran from police in the line before being tackled by a man in plainclothes after a wild foot chase for more than a kilometre.
A young couple said they had taken two MDMA caps each and lines of speed.
The young woman said she had smuggled the drugs internally using a condom for her and her partner because of the police dogs.
A 19-year-old man said his friend had been taken away on a wheelchair after “candy flipping”, taking LSD and MDMA together.
Police made 12 arrests for drug possession and one for drug supply.
Another eight people were issued criminal infringement notices for drug possession.
Police also issued 12 cautions, including for cannabis use and “juvenile cautions”.
The majority of drugs seized were MDMA and cannabis, police said. Forty people were also ejected.
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