Enyobeni tavern tragedy: Still no cause of death
The Eastern Cape Health Department says there's currently no conclusive evidence on what exactly caused the deaths of 21 young people in the Enyobeni tavern tragedy.
The department's Dr Litha Matiwane says they've so far ruled out that a stampede took place.
He says they've found that the alcohol and carbon monoxide levels in the blood of the victims were not conclusive of lethal toxicity.
But Matiwane says they did find a chemical substance in all 21 bodies.
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"Methanol has been detected in all 21 individuals that were there, however there is still progressive analysis of the levels of methanol.
"So, we are just have a qualitative result that says all 21 of them had methanol in their blood, but we still need to get the quantitative levels which will then tell us whether these were at lethal or non-lethal levels as well."
Matiwane was speaking at a media briefing on Tuesday.
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