Police minister Bheki Cele has brought a high-powered investigation team to probe the deaths of 21 minors at the Enyobeni tavern in Scenery Park, East London, during the early hours of Sunday. The 21 are aged between 13 and 17 years old, some girls and the rest boys. News of the deaths was reported internationally, with President Cyril Ramaphosa issuing a statement of condolences to the families.
As the families of the 21 children who died in an East London tavern in the early hours of Sunday battled to process the enormity of the tragedy, police investigators spent hours combing the scene, trying to piece together the cause of their deaths. The victims were aged between 13 and 17, prompting searching questions about how they died and why children had been allowed into the drinking establishment in the first place, DispatchLIVE reports (https://www.
For hundreds of children in Scenery Park, Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays are when they get a meal of fresh bread and hot chips provided by Local Hero nominee Rodney Parsons, 59, of Amalinda.
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