Blood tests, interviews to be conducted as five are still critically ill after suspected poisoning in Cape Town
14 January 2020
Five of the six people thought to have ingested a substance which made them collapse in Wetton, Cape Town, are still in a critical condition, the City of Cape Town's health MMC Zahid Badroodien said on Tuesday.
"The South African Police Service is looking into the matter to establish the circumstances that led to this incident," he said, echoing an earlier statement by Western Cape police.
Once formal notification had been received as to the cause, the City's Environmental Health Department will conduct further investigations into what they ingested, its source and other circumstances leading up to the emergency.
"We do not want to speculate on the possible cause until blood tests or clinical samples have been completed and interviews with those affected have been conducted," he said.