Teenager stabbed at music festival
2012-12-18 14:46
Port Elizabeth - An 18-year-old has died in hospital in
Port Elizabeth, after he was stabbed at a music festival, Eastern Cape police
said on Tuesday.
Police spokesperson Priscilla Naidu said Brenden Claasen was
with a group of friends at a festival in Uitenhage on Sunday, when someone threw
an empty bottle from the back of the crowd.
The bottle hit a woman in the group.
"It is alleged that some people from the group
chased after the alleged culprits while the others remained [behind]," she
said.
A fight then broke out between the remaining friends and
a new group of people. When the crowd dispersed Claasen and two other people
were lying on the ground. All three appeared to have been stabbed.
Claasen died at Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth on
Monday.
- SAPA
