At least 16 people, including three children, died when toxic gas leaked from a cylinder near Johannesburg, South African police said Wednesday.
Get Southern California news, weather forecasts and entertainment stories to your inbox.Emergency services spokesman William Ntladi said the deaths were caused by a leak from a gas cylinder being kept in a shack in the Angelo settlement. He said the leak had stopped and teams were searching a 100-meter radius around the cylinder to check for more casualties.
The bodies were still lying on the ground “in and around the area,” Ntladi said, and forensic investigators and pathologists were on their way to the scene.Police said the three children killed were aged 1, 6 and 15. Two people were taken to the hospital for treatment, police said.
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