Belgrade, July 13 (DPA) British punk group Madness closed Exit, the largest music festival in Serbia and the Balkans, Sunday night.

Tens of thousands of fans gathered at the four-day Exit festival, which featured some 500 performers on 25 stages connected by cobbled streets and tunnels at the Petrovaradin fortress near the northern city of Novi Sad.

The unofficial star of this year's festival, Moby, gathered some 40,000 people for his act - the biggest crowd since the beginning of the festival in 2000.

Organisers said around 200,000 people attended this year's Exit that featured stars such as British pop sensation Lily Allen, Patti Smith, Manic Street Preachers and many others.

Although Exit has generally avoided any major problems, this year one British fan was diagnosed with swine flu during the festival and another Briton fell from the 10-metre high walls of the fortress and died.