Survivors of the horrific ordeal at the popular East London tavern in the early hours of Sunday remembered a strong, suffocating smell in the building before the teenagers began to die. The bodies of many of the victims, the youngest of a 13-year-old girl, were found by police lying on tables, strewn on chairs and sofas and lying on the club’s track. Authorities have already ruled out the first information that a riot killed the young people. They have since sent forensic samples from the victims to a toxicology lab to investigate whether the teens swallowed poison or toxin at the party. The bodies of the 21 victims, the youngest being a 13-year-old girl, were discovered by the police inside the nightclub in the early hours of Sunday. The French Agency through Getty Images Authorities are investigating whether the teenagers may have been accidentally poisoned by something they ate, drank or smoked. AP “It’s either something they swallowed and it would indicate poisoning, either food or drink, or it’s something they inhaled,” said a spokesman for Eastern Cape police. He added that the hookah tubes were visible in the scene surveillance footage. “They died while dancing,” Police Secretary Becky Sele said on Monday of the still unexplained deaths. “They dance, they fall and they die. Literally. “Others just felt dizzy, slept on the couch, (and) died. He tells you the story that they were all children because someone should have noted it “. Police said many of the victims were found lying on chairs and sofas and lying on the club’s track. The mourners attend a service of the Church of God at Scenery Park in East London, South Africa on Monday, June 27, 2022 after 21 teenagers were found dead. The police chief said the teenagers died between 02:00 and 04:30 “The sight of these bodies sleeping there; when you look at their faces, you realize that you are dealing with children, children, children,” Cele said. “You have heard the story that they are young, but when you see them you understand that it is a disaster. Twenty-one of them. Too many.” Some of the teens reportedly celebrated the end of mid-year exams, a local DJ’s birthday and the relaxation of some of the latest COVID-19 restrictions in South Africa, authorities said. With Post cables