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SLIPKNOT FAN DIES AFTER SUFFERING HEART ATTACK AT SHOW

A 21 year-old from Detroit dies four days after the gig...

A SLIPKNOT fan has died after suffering a heart attack at the band's DETROIT concert.

Alecia Holst, 21, experienced a sudden arrhythmia at the April 16 Harpo's Concert Theatre show and was immediately treated by firefighters on the scene.

After being taken outside and given CPR on the pavement, she was rushed to St John Hospital & Medical Centre.

Holst, a Central Michigan University senior, died four days later (April 20).

The girl had no history of heart trouble and no drugs or alcohol were found in her system. Her mother, Marcia, said that conditions at the concert played no factor in her daughter's death, MTV news reports.

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