TWO siblings died allegedly after sharing a pack of chips bought from a spaza shop in Vredefort in the Free State on Tuesday afternoon, 17 October.
Their mum was rushed to hospital after she collapsed when she visited the scene where her kids died.
Free State police spokeswoman Captain Loraine Earle said cops were investigating the deaths of two girls, aged three and four, who were certified dead at the Multi-Purpose Centre in Mokwallo, Vredefort.
Earle said the provincial commissioner of the police in the Free State, Lieutenant-General Baile Motswenyane, appealed to the community to afford investigators an opportunity to conduct a thorough investigation into the matter.
According to Earle, the commissioner's instruction to the investigator was not to leave any stone unturned while following up on any leads.
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"An appeal is also made to the community not to jump into any conclusions or presumptions, which can lead people to start pointing fingers without any tangible evidence on hand," said Earle.
"We want to assure the community of Mokwallo that as soon as the postmortem process has been completed and the results thereof prove that any specific person must carry the responsibility for their deaths, that individual will face the full might of the law," said Motswenyane.
She said the situation was calm at this stage and public order police members were monitoring the situation and will remain in the area until they were sure that the situation was back to normal.
"Nobody has been arrested as yet," he said.
