East London nightclub deaths: At least 22 people found dead in South African 'tavern'

Sky news ^ | 6-26-22 | Philip Whiteside

[dynachrome]

At least 22 people are reported to have been found dead at a nightclub in South Africa.

Emergency services were called in the early hours of Sunday to the Enyobeni Tavern in Scenery Park, on the edge of East London, Eastern Cape province, according to the Daily Dispatch news site.

Eastern Cape police spokesperson Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana told the Newzroom Africa rolling news channel in the country that young people were among the dead.

Reuters reported him saying they were aged between 18 and 20, but there are also reports they may have been younger, with AP saying they were reportedly attending a party to celebrate the end of winter school exams.

Siyanda Manana, a spokesperson for the Eastern Cape provincial health department, told Reuters: "We are going to immediately be embarking on autopsies so we can know the probable cause of death. We are talking 22 bodies right now."

[EEGator]

I’ve been there and didn’t get laid.
I felt ashamed...
To be fair, we also have Blue Ball, PA...

[silverleaf]

Bad booze?

[farming pharmer]

The death of a disco dancer,
Well it happens a lot round here,
and if you think peace is a common goal,
then it goes to show how little you know...

[mware]

Don’t have to take fentanyl to kill you.

[Libloather]

Special Kool-Aid?

[shooter223]

Both in Michigan

[EEGator]

Yes...Exit 69!

Doesn’t Exit 69 make it difficult to get to Exit 88?...

[chopperk]

FENTANYL.

[laplata]

Good thinking. That sounds plausible.

[heavy metal]

ocean city maryland has “assawoman bay”... 😀

[EEGator]

I used to date a girl from there. I didn’t know about that though.

Do black guys flock there?…

[shooter223]

Here's another one. I75 in Kentucky, just south of the Ohio border

[heavy metal]

i lived there for 20 years...

the thug culture has recently moved in...

3 people were stabbed in a fight on the boardwalk last weekend...

[null and void]

Carbon monoxide is my guess.

[mewzilla]

Per a South African official, all the dead are minors...

[mewzilla]

AT LEAST 20 CHILDREN DEAD AT EASTERN CAPE TAVERN, POLICE INVESTIGATING CAUSE The incident happened in the early hours of Sunday morning at Enyobeni tavern in Scenery Park but the cause of death is unknown at this stage.

[mewzilla]

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africa-police-investigating-17-deaths-east-london-tavern-2022-06-26/

“...Expressing his condolences to affected families, President Cyril Ramaphosa said he was worried about the circumstances under which young people, potentially under the age of 18 years, were allowed to gather at the tavern....”

I’m wondering about that, too...

[mewzilla]

https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2022/06/26/news/17_persone_trovate_morte_in_sudafrica_in_un_night_club-355482465/

Per the above, the victims were between 18 and 20...

Students celebrating end of term...?

[packagingguy]

Could be, methanol poisoning was the first thing that came to mind.

[EEGator]

Hmmm…should I move there?