Police probe after death in custody

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The man died after being transported to hospital. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Dan Peled.

Queensland Police have launched a probe after a man died in custody in Maryborough on Saturday.

Emergency services were called to Alice Street in Maryborough in south east Queensland around 11.50am for a welfare check.

Police say they were responding to reports of a man in his 30s acting erratically before he was restrained.

The man was sedated and transported to hospital via ambulance.

Police said he experienced a medical episode and died a short time later.

The incident will be investigated by the Queensland Police Ethical Standards Command.