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The women, aged
18 and 19, were found unresponsive at the HARD Summer music
festival in Pomona on Saturday, the Times reported.
The deaths were "apparent drug overdoses," Lieutenant Fred
Corral with the Los Angeles County Department of Medical
Examiner-Coroner told the newspaper. Autopsies will be conducted
in the coming days, he said.
A coroner's official confirmed the death of the two women to
Reuters, but said he could not say if drug use was linked to
their deaths. Their identities were not immediately provided.
Los Angeles County Supervisors Michael Antonovich and Hilda
Solis said they would call for an investigation into the event
and its management after news of the deaths emerged on Sunday.
Several people have died in recent years of drug overdoses at
similar music festivals in the Los Angeles area and around the
country.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco, editing by Larry
King)
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