Youngsters at a pens-down celebration near a tavern in East London’s Nompumelelo township on Saturday stumbled into the middle of a deadly fight that ended with two young men dead, seven people — from both sides — in hospital, and a taxi on fire.
The survivors claim they were ambushed by men armed with knives who climbed out of a taxi and laid into partygoers, allegedly led by a taxi operator who had returned to the tavern in a jealous rage after an earlier argument over a girl.
