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East London nightclub deaths: At least 22 people found dead in South African 'tavern'
Sky news ^ | 6-26-22 | Philip Whiteside

Posted on 06/26/2022 6:58:55 AM PDT by 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."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 22dead; manyhospitalized; nightclub; southafrica
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To: Gay State Conservative

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


41 posted on 06/26/2022 8:02:06 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: clee1

Bad booze?


42 posted on 06/26/2022 8:04:14 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: dynachrome
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...
43 posted on 06/26/2022 8:09:39 AM PDT by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: 31R1O

Don’t have to take fentanyl to kill you.


44 posted on 06/26/2022 8:15:19 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: dynachrome

Special Kool-Aid?


45 posted on 06/26/2022 8:25:46 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: EEGator
Both in Michigan
46 posted on 06/26/2022 8:35:17 AM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: shooter223

Yes...Exit 69!

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


47 posted on 06/26/2022 8:37:44 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: laplata

FENTANYL.


48 posted on 06/26/2022 8:40:02 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: chopperk

Good thinking. That sounds plausible.


49 posted on 06/26/2022 8:43:37 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: EEGator

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


50 posted on 06/26/2022 8:48:04 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: heavy metal

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

Do black guys flock there?…


51 posted on 06/26/2022 8:49:35 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator
Here's another one. I75 in Kentucky, just south of the Ohio border
52 posted on 06/26/2022 8:51:52 AM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: EEGator

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...


53 posted on 06/26/2022 8:54:35 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: dynachrome

Carbon monoxide is my guess.


54 posted on 06/26/2022 8:58:51 AM PDT by null and void (If I had a buck for every girl that found me unattractive, they would eventually find me attractive!)
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To: dynachrome

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


55 posted on 06/26/2022 8:58:59 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: 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.
56 posted on 06/26/2022 9:00:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: 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...


57 posted on 06/26/2022 9:02:39 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: 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...?


58 posted on 06/26/2022 9:05:57 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: butlerweave

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


59 posted on 06/26/2022 9:06:06 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: shooter223

Hmmm…should I move there?


60 posted on 06/26/2022 9:14:16 AM PDT by EEGator
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