Heartbreak after 4-year-old’s ‘playful push’ in pond ends in tragedy

A group of children who witnessed the drowning say they were told not to say anything

07 February 2024 - 21:39

The family of a four-year-old child who drowned after he was allegedly pushed into a small pond by a seven-year-old child in Chesterville, Durban, are still shattered and struggling to make sense of the devastating loss...

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