Shipwreck kills eight in Mozambique

At least eight people, including six children, died, while two are missing following a shipwreck on Monday in Mozambique’s Caia District.
The Radio Mozambique reported the death on Tuesday.
According to the report, the canoe-type boat carried 12 people, most farmers, when it sank into the Zambezi River due to overcrowding.
The administrator of the Caia District, Nobre dos Santos, quoted by Radio Mozambique, said that after the shipwreck alert was given, a search began.
This is the second shipwreck within the month in Mozambique.
A makeshift ferry had capsized near the Island of Mozambique in the northern province of Nampula, where almost 100 people died.
(Xinhua/NAN)
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