{"id":31393,"date":"2022-06-26T15:34:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T12:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=31393"},"modified":"2022-06-26T15:34:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T12:34:19","slug":"at-least-17-found-dead-in-south-africa-nightclub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/26\/at-least-17-found-dead-in-south-africa-nightclub\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 17 found dead in South Africa nightclub"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>At least 17 people have been found dead in a nightclub in South Africa&#8217;s East London city, local media report.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bodies were found at the Enyobeni Tavern early on Sunday, and reports say several people were injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The circumstances surrounding the incident are under investigation as we speak,&#8221; a police spokesman told the Newzroom Africa television channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We do not want to make any speculations at this stage,&#8221; Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A large number of emergency service personnel are on the scene in the Eastern Cape province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Relatives of the victims have been unable to see their bodies, reports say, and locals have called for the venue to be closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eastern Cape Police Commissioner Nomthetheleli Lilian Mene told SABC News that &#8220;there was an alleged stampede inside the tavern&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BBC has been unable to verify this and details are still emerging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four people have been taken to hospital, SABC reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brigadier Kinana told reporters most of those found dead were young adults aged between 18 and 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eyewitnesses told the Daily Dispatch newspaper that bodies were lying inside the venue as if they had collapsed on the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for Eastern Cape&#8217;s health department told News24 the dead bodies were taken to various nearby mortuaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Siyanda Manana added: &#8220;We are going to conduct autopsies as soon as possible to establish the probable cause of death.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 17 people have been found dead in a nightclub in South Africa&#8217;s East London city, local media report. Bodies were found at the Enyobeni Tavern early on Sunday, and reports say several people were injured. &#8220;The circumstances surrounding the incident are under investigation as we speak,&#8221; a police spokesman told the Newzroom Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":31395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[1234],"class_list":["post-31393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31396,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31393\/revisions\/31396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}