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Police: ‘Drug overdose might have killed Pearl Shongwe’

Late radio news reader Pearl Shongwe‘s cause of death has been suspected to be a drug overdose. A local publication reports that police officers found drugs in her bedroom when they did a cleanup at her home.

“We suspect drug overdose because we have found drugs in her bedroom when we were combing the house for possible leads to her death,” the police officer told the publication.

Pearl Shongwe

They further stated that they are looking into surveillance cameras to determine who might have been the last person to be with Shongwe while she was alive. Alluding that the person might have planted drugs to make it seem as though she overdosed.

A toxicology report will give a clear indication as to what exactly killed the presenter.

Pearl Shongwe

Pearl passed away at age 35 after she was found dead on Tuesday afternoon at her home in Polofields north of Johannesburg.

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Source: News365.co.za

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