Tear gas or pepper spray used at nightclub when teens died, eyewitness says
First, then they said it was crushing from a stampede, then they said they didn't know what happened, then they said it might be carbon monoxide poisoning, now teens are saying it was something else:
Sibongile Mtsewu, 22, said he was ordering drinks at the crowded Enyobeni Tavern near the South African city of East London over the weekend, when suddenly the doors were closed and some type of chemical agent was released into the air.
"There was no way out," Mtsewu, who lives nearby, told ABC News in a telephone interview Thursday. "There was no chance to breathe."
Mtsewu said he passed out after inhaling the substance. He recalled being surrounded by bodies when his brother woke him up some time later.
"The tear gas suffocated many people," he told ABC News. "That's why people died."
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