47 arrested for drugs at Île Soniq opening night, Police

Electronic dance music festival Île Soniq at Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau is only halfway through its first edition, but already police have arrested 47 people on drug-related charges.

Police and concert organizers are on high alert after reports of drug overdoses and deaths at two music festivals in Canada this summer.

Two people died at the Veld music festival in Toronto while 13 more were hospitalized because they were using drugs that had been mixed with other substances.

Last weekend a 24-year-old Alberta woman died of a drug overdose at the Boonstock festival in Penticton, B.C.

The festival continues Saturday.

Agencies/Canadajournal

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