SAPS mobilises resources to investigate the death of 21 teenagers
26 June 2022
The Management of the South African Police Service (SAPS) has ordered the deployment of maximum resources as police investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of twenty-one teenagers at a local tavern in Scenery Park, East London.
On Sunday morning at about 04:00 police from the Scenery Park Police Station received a report of the lifeless bodies of the teenagers at a local tavern in the area.
Upon arrival police found seventeen bodies inside the building. It was later established two more died at a local clinic, one died enroute to hospital and another died in hospital.
Nine of the deceased are female while twelve of the deceased are male.