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Five people were killed while two survived a horror accident on the R72 about five kilometres outside Alexandria in the Eastern Cape.

A security officer from Red Alert Electronic Security in East London is recovering in hospital after being wounded in the face in Vincent on Monday morning.

Police in Gqeberha are investigating a case of malicious damage to property after a group of men damaged a car in Walmer on Saturday. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the 43-year-old complainant received a call from a friend who asked for assistance after she was involved in an accident on Circular Drive.

The bodies of five children who were killed in the tavern tragedy at Scenery Park in East London on Sunday are yet to be identified.

The Eastern Cape Liquor Board (ECLB) has revoked the license of a tavern owner in Scenery Park with immediate effect.

Two pilots are dead after their Sling 2 aircraft crashed in bushes on a farm in Kinklebos. The victims, aged 25 and 33 left Dawid Stuurman Airport at about 18. 15 on Saturday en route to East London.

Hundreds of Community members are gathered outside a tavern in Scenery park in East London where 20 pupils were found dead. Our East London correspondent Olwethu Xabanisa says it is almost impossible to reach the crime scene as cars are parked everywhere with parents crying at the scene.

A large section of Fort Beaufort Provincial Hospital has been shut down by the Eastern Cape Department of Labour which has deemed 13 wards to be a health hazard.

Eastern Cape Police have launched a manhunt for five trial awaiting prisoners who escaped from the back of a police van while in transit. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the suspects were being transported from Court to the Wellington Correctional facility in Mthatha on Tuesday when they managed to escape.