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A man who died on site at this year's Glastonbury was found 'doused in petrol and ablaze', an inquest has heard. 

Last week, an inquest opened into the death of 27-year-old juggler Ashton Launcherley at Taunton Coroner's Court in Somerset - after he was found to have been involved in an incident in the Green Field area of Glastonbury before the festival began, and later dying in hospital. 

The inquest heard that he was found "ablaze" and suffered severe burns, later dying in hospital from inhalation injury and organ failure, reports NME. 

"On the afternoon of 20 June Mr Launcherley was discovered ablaze," said Coroner Tony Williams He was doused in petrol and he was ablaze. Mr Launcherley was airlifted from the scene to Southmead hospital in Bristol and then to the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham where he died the next day."

Burns and plastics specialist Dr Azzam Farroha said that Ashton died from "95 per cent total body circumference, full thickness burns associated with inhalation injury" and multi-organ failure.

It was said that there were no suspicious circumstances and that inquest would be adjourned for three months. It is not yet known whether it may have been deliberate or an accident. 

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