IN PICS | ‘It was painful picking up their bodies’: relatives of Boksburg gas victims

Seventeen people have died, among them five women and three children

06 July 2023 - 15:38

Aly Mullah, 32, sits on a white worn-out chair in front of the door of one of the shacks where his relatives died after inhaling suspected toxic gas on Wednesday evening at the Angelo informal settlement in Boksburg...

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