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An investigation has today been launched after a man died hours after collapsing at a gay sauna in Waterloo.

The 37-year-old man was rushed to hospital after he was taken ill at the Pleasuredrome gay sauna in Cornwall Road yesterday.

Doctors at St Thomas’ Hospital called police when he died at 3.40pm. His death is being treated as unexplained.

The venue has been served with a 24-hour closure notice as inquiries continue.

Police and local community leaders are expected to meet police today to discuss the circumstances of the death.

Three men died at the venue in 2012.

Communications chief Greg Page, 41, was found dead at the Pleasuredome on the same night Goldman Sachs security officer John Scott, 46, collapsed and was rushed to hospital where he died two days later.

A joint inquest into the deaths of Mr Page and Mr Scott said both men had high quantities of dance drug GHB in their systems.

In February 2012, Konstantinos Bampatzis was found dead in the venue after taking mephedrone and GHB.

The venue is one of the largest of its kind in London, spread over two floors and includes a spa, two steam rooms, a massage suite and a café area.

A worker at the Pleasuredome said: “I’m afraid I cannot give you any information. I cannot say anything.”

A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said: “Police were called at approximately 3.40pm yesterday by staff at a south London hospital after a man who had been admitted there earlier in the day died.

“The man, believed to be aged 37, was admitted to hospital after being taken ill at a venue in Cornwall Road. The death is being treated as unexplained at this time.”