‘I was just playing with him and then the gas came inside’ – father of dead infant
Jeff Wicks And Nivashni Nair | 29 May, 2017, The Times
Moments before noxious teargas filled his shack in the Foreman Road informal settlement outside Durban‚ Receive Khoza was playing with his two-week-old son Jayden on a bed.
A teargas canister had been fired into the settlement‚ in Sydenham‚ as police tried to disperse protesting residents.
“I was just playing with him and then the gas came inside. My wife went out to see what was happening but then all the smoke was inside‚” Khoza said. He said his infant child was unable to breathe.