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'My son died in a death trap set up for poor people': Toddler who drowned in pit toilet buried

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Unecebo Mboteni, 3, was laid to rest in the Diphini Village outside East London on Friday after drowning in a pit toilet in Mdantsane last week. (Sithandiwe Velaphi/News24)
Unecebo Mboteni, 3, was laid to rest in the Diphini Village outside East London on Friday after drowning in a pit toilet in Mdantsane last week. (Sithandiwe Velaphi/News24)

It was an emotional and sombre moment for the community of Diphini Village in East London on Friday morning as they buried little Unecebo Mboteni, three, who drowned in a pit toilet last week.

The incident occurred at the Little Champions Day Care Centre in Mdantsane last Thursday.

Unecebo died the following day in Frere Hospital's ICU.

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