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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Workers find body at Bonnaroo site during cleanup

Staff Photo by Gillian Bolsover Festivalgoers walk through the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival Thursday.

Cleaning crew workers found the body of a white male in his 20s in a single tent at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival campgrounds around noon today, authorities said.

The body has not been identified, but it was enroute this afternoon to the medical examiner’s office in Nashville for an autopsy.

Coffee County Sheriff Steve Graves said there did not appear to be any foul play and it was not clear if the man was a festival attendee or one of the cleaning crew workers.

“There are still about 200 workers out there cleaning up,” the sheriff said.

Sheriff’s deputies are still investigating but have concluded that the man was still alive at 3 p.m. Monday.

Two attendees died at the festival in 2004, a woman and a 20-year-old Michigan man, according to newspaper archives.

A 32-year-old Huntsville, Ala. man died of an apparent methadone-related accident at the 2005 concert.

Sheriff Graves said there have not been any calls about a missing person, which might help identify the man. More information likely will be available Wednesday, he said.

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