Cape Town, June 26, 2022 – Una massacre – currently lacks plausible explanations – that i is assuming outlines of a yellow. At least 22 young people – aged between 18 and 20 – were found dead yesterday inside the Anyobeni tavern, a nightclub located in a suburb of East London (South Africa), a coastal city over two hundred kilometers from Port Elizabeth. There was a huge party going on at the venue, organized by two popular local disk jockeys to celebrate their birthdays. The death toll – said the provincial police chief, General Thembinkosi Kinana – is unfortunately destined to rise, because the recovery of the corpses are still underway.
The alarm was raised at 4 on Sunday morning. Some bodies – according to the very few leaked indiscretions – would have been found by the reverse agents on the floor of Anyobeni. Others lay instead on the tables and chairs of the room. None would show injuries or signs of violence. The head of the provincial government security service, Weziwe Tikana-Gxothiwe, said that three people died in hospital after being hospitalized in very critical conditions.
“The circumstances of the discovery are under investigation – Thembinkosi Kinana told local media -. At this moment we do not want to speculate on what happened and we prefer to keep the strictest confidentiality. “The commissioner, Nomthetheleli Lilian Mene, on the other hand, went unbalanced by revealing to the South African television channel Sabs news that” it could have occurred. a crowd inside the roomwhich would have given rise, for reasons yet to be ascertained, to a stampede, the cause of the tragedy “. A version that contrasts with what is stated by some testimonies reported by the Daily Dispatch newspaper that speak of” bodies on the ground as if they had suddenly fainted ” .
The hypothesis of one then makes its way stampede inside the nightclub, caused by the presence of a toxic substance in the air. An initial response will come from the autopsies, scheduled for the next few days. There are also those who point the finger on the capacity. “Too many guests at the party. Enyobeni allowed access for a huge number of people, more than it could accommodate.” The area around the restaurant has been cordoned off and the parents have not yet been able to recognize the bodies. The South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, sent his condolences to the families of the victims. “A tragedy made even more painful by his occurrence during Youth Month. A period in which the country promotes a range of opportunities to improve the socio-economic conditions of our nation’s youth,” he wrote in a tweet.