Emerge dance festival <\/a>in Boucher Playing Fields.<\/p>\nThe PSNI said two people remain in hospital after taking ill at the same event.<\/p>\n
A woman in her 30s was said to be in a serious but stable condition in hospital, while a teenage boy is receiving treatment in hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. <\/p>\n
Police are continuing to make inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the death and illnesses.<\/p>\n
Belfast city councillor Micky Murray shared his condolences at the \u201cutterly heartbreaking\u201d news.<\/p>\n
He said he had requested a meeting with council and festival representatives as he urged people not to speculate while police carry out their inquiries.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also wish for a full and speedy recovery for the other individuals who have been taken to the hospital and are reported to have attended the festival as well,\u201d Mr Murray said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFestivals are meant to be safe spaces for people to celebrate their love of music and express themselves, no-one expects such a tragic incident to occur in this environment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe circumstances of the situation remain unclear, and as a representative on Belfast City Council, I have requested an urgent meeting with council officers and representatives from Emerge festival.<\/p>\n
\u201cI urge people not to speculate, as the police have stated that inquiries are still ongoing.\u201d – Additional reporting PA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage girl has died and two other people are in hospital after they became ill at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[663,9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,952,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-22671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-world","23":"tag-world-news","24":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}