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Africa Live: Kiptum funeral - mourners flock to pay tribute to marathon hero - BBC News Africa Live: Ugandan mothers sentenced for sending children to beg - BBC News
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Natasha Booty Nomsa Maseko
BBC News BBC News, Johannesburg
We have been bringing you live coverage from the funeral of 24-year-old Kenyan marathon great Kelvin Kiptum. The owners of a bar in South Africa, where 21 teenagers died during a party in 2022, have each been ordered to pay a fine or spend 100 days in prison.
Loved ones and dignitaries, including the country's president, have finished their speeches. The athlete's body is now being taken to what will be its final resting place in a nearby village. The couple were found guilty of selling alcohol to under-18-year-olds.
The burial is set to take place later on Friday. Their deaths in the Eastern Cape province caused outrage and brought renewed calls for the legal drinking age to be increased.
We'll now return to our usual pan-African news coverage. A toxicology report revealed they died from suffocation due to overcrowding.
It also emerged that traces of the poisonous chemical, methanol were found in their bodies.
A formal inquest is yet to take place.
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