NATIONAL NEWS - Tshwane Mayor Solly Msimanga says that authorities are now investigating whether cable tampering could have contributed to the collapse of an overhead lighting post which killed five children.
The children were playing in Soshanguve at the weekend when part of the structure fell on them.
Four died at the scene while the fifth child died in hospital.
Msimanga will on Monday morning visit the families of the victims.
He says it wouldn’t be the first time that criminals have tried to steal these kinds of cables.
“These people would pull down these lights. They’re taking the cables inside and there seems to be a growing phenomenon because we’d find these things in taverns and car washes.”
'Cable theft may have led to death of 5 children'
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Posted on: 09:56 Mon, 06 November 2017
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