Emergency services were rushed to a popular park to help a man who had suffered a cardiac arrest.
Several police vehicles, ambulances and the air ambulance arrived at Abbey Field just after 3pm this afternoon.
A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service said: "An ambulance, a rapid response vehicle an ambulance officer vehicle and Essex and Herts Air Ambulance were called to Abbey Field, Colchester, following reports of a man in cardiac arrest.
"One patient was transported to Colchester General Hospital by road ambulance."
A spokesman for Essex Police said: "A man was found unconscious in Abbey Fields, Colchester, shortly before 3.30pm on Tuesday 25 June and has been taken to hospital."
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