At least 17 people found dead in South African nightclub: Police

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Seventeen people found dead in South African nightclub: Police

At least 17 young people were found dead at a nightclub in a township in South Africa's southern city of East London on Sunday , police said.

The Eastern Cape provincial community and safety department official Unathi Binqose, speaking from the scene, ruled out a stampede as cause of death. A regional local newspaper, DispatchLive, reported"bodies are lying strewn across tables, chairs and on the floor; with no obvious signs of injury". Local television showed police officers trying to calm down a crowd of parents and onlookers gathered outside the club in the city, which lies on the Indian Ocean coast, nearly 1,000km south of Johannesburg.

 

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