EC Health mum on Enyobeni toxicology report amid suffocation reports
The Eastern Cape Health Department says it will not disclose the contents of the toxicology report released on Thursday, revealing the cause of death of the Enyobeni Tavern victims.
Twenty-one young people, most of them teenagers, died after attending an end-of-exams party at a packed tavern in East London in June.
The youngest victim was 13.
Their families have today learned what caused their children's deaths.
The department's Siyanda Manana says their officials are meeting with the families individually.
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"What we have done was really for us as a department was to communicate the cause of death.
"We have done so, but we cannot publicly come out and say this is what has happened because it is a confidential document. The families have been informed."
Some media is reporting that the victims died of suffocation due to overcrowding.
Manana says the document will now be handed over to the police.
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