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64 migrants found dead in container

By AFP
March 25, 2020

MAPUTO: More than 60 suspected undocumented migrants from Ethiopia were found dead on Tuesday in a cargo container in Mozambique´s northwest Tete province, a senior hospital official said. “A truck transporting illegal immigrants from Malawi, suspected to be Ethiopians, was stopped at the Mussacana weight bridge in Tete, and 64 people were found dead. Only 14 survived,” the official, who asked not be named because he does not have the authority to speak to the media, told .