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The police are combing the East London tavern for clues that led to the death of 17 patrons in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The provincial police commissioner, Nomthetheleli Mene, says an initial report indicates that a stampede took place inside the tavern.

The number has been revised after some were taken to hospital for treatment. The police and emergency service workers remain on the scene.Residents of Scenery Park in East London, the scene of what appears to have been a stampede inside the Enyobeni tavern, are demanding that the place be shut down. Xolile Malangeni, a distraught father whose two children are reportedly among the dead, demands that the provincial Liquor Board revoke the tavern’s liquor licence.

 

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