Key PointsDetectives are investigating the loss of life of a 53-year-old girl at a well being retreat within the Victorian city of Clunes.Two extra persons are in hospital after consuming a drink that police suspect contained mushrooms. The retreat describes itself on social media as a substitute and holistic well being service.
A lady has died and two extra persons are in hospital after consuming a drink at a retreat in regional Victoria.
The loss of life of the 53-year-old on the wellness centre within the city of Clunes is being probed by detectives from the Moorabool Crime Investigation Unit.
Officers are inspecting whether or not the drink contained mushrooms.
Victoria Police have been referred to as about midnight Sunday and consider the Ringwood North girl turned ailing after ingesting a drink.
The investigation is open and a report might be ready for the coroner.
Ambulance Victoria confirmed paramedics have been referred to as to the Clunes property at 11:55pm on Saturday and took two different individuals to Ballarat Base Hospital.
Clunes was beforehand a centre of gold mining and is positioned round 25 minutes north of Ballarat. Supply: AAP / AAPIMAGE
The retreat describes itself on social media as a substitute and holistic well being service.
It advertises a number of companies, together with facials utilizing “wild foraged crops”.
On Friday evening, the retreat hosted an occasion with a medium the place friends got an opportunity to “ask questions of the spirit communicators”.
A deliberate occasion described as “sound therapeutic” was cancelled on Sunday.
AAP has contacted the proprietor of the retreat for remark.
Clunes is about 30km from Ballarat, which has skilled a collection of tragic occasions in 2024.
Three native girls, Samantha Murphy, Rebecca Younger and Hannah McGuire, have died allegedly by the hands of males prior to now two months.
Miner Kurt Hourigan died in a mine collapse in March and the realm skilled bushfires over the summer season.
Lower than a 12 months in the past, three individuals died and one other was hospitalised for months after allegedly consuming toxic mushrooms in jap Victoria.
Don and Gail Patterson, each 70, and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, died after consuming a meal on the dwelling of Erin Patterson in Leongatha in July 2023.
Wilkinson’s husband Ian, who was additionally on the lunch, spent shut to 2 months in hospital.
Erin Patterson, a mom of two, has been charged with three counts of homicide and 5 of tried homicide.