Families continue to have many unanswered questions about the deaths of their loved ones at the Enyobeni tavern in East London on June 26.
“We are looking for other chemicals — formic acid being one. Formic acid is a byproduct of methanol and [if found] can tell us more about the levels of toxicity.
We are also processing gastric and bowel tissue to see if there are other activities,” said Matiwane.“The first way it gets into the body is to ingest it. But it is a byproduct from other chemicals, so it could have been something else. Hence we say we are investigating.” Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane said when the news first broke of the deaths, they assumed the cause of death was a stampede, but this had been ruled out by the postmortems.It’s still difficult to fathom exactly what happened, but now we have a sense of direction from the labs,” he said.What makes this different is that young people died.”in relation to the incident, as underage children were served alcohol, and the owner of the tavern and some employees had been arrested.
Police have also opened an inquest into the deaths and the final forensic laboratory findings will inform the inquiry and subsequent case. Police minister Bheki Cele said he would visit the area again. He commented on a flyer which had allegedly called for schoolchildren to gather on the Saturday.
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