A crowd has gathered outside the tavern in East London where at least 17 people died in the early hours of Sunday morning in a stampede inside the venue.
The horrific scene unfolded in the early hours of Sunday morning with frantic messages requesting police, metro and ambulance assistance at Enyobeni Tavern in Scenery Park.
The cause of the deaths is unknown at this time but there has been speculation that the patrons were either exposed to some form of poison or an incident resulted in a large number being injured and killed in a stampede.
According to the Eastern Cape Department: Community Safety spokesperson Unathi Binqose, the Police and the Forensics are still combing the scene.
Binqose says the cause of the deaths is not yet known but there has been speculation that the patrons were either exposed to some form of poison or an incident resulted in a large number being injured and killed in a stampede.
He says it has also been speculated that most of the patrons are teenagers as most were celebrating “pen’s down” and apparently “masks down” at this Tarven last night.
The community is now calling for the police to shut the tarven down.
Bodies lying as if they collapsed to the floor suddenly while dancing or in the middle of a conversation. Other bodies are slumped across chairs and lying over tables. #EastLondonDeath
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— Sisonke Mlamla (@SISONKE_MD) June 26, 2022