Police in South Africa's southern city of East London are investigating what caused the death of 17 young adults at a nightclub.
Authorities are attempting to establish how 17 people died at a local nightclub in Scenery Park, East London, South Africa.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 1,000 kilometres south of Johannesburg.
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