Harare, Zimbabwe â A makeshift ferry sank off Mozambique 's northern coast Sunday, killing more than 90 people including children and leaving more than 20 missing, officials said.The Reuters news agency quotes Lourenco Machado, an administrator from the country's Maritime Transport Institute as saying at least 94 of the 130 people on board died, including children, and 26 were missing.
'Some people were traveling to attend a fair while others were trying to 'flee from Lunga to the Island of Mozambique for fear of being contaminated by cholera, which has affected that region in recent days,' state broadcaster TV Diário Nampula reported.Other news reports quoted Neto as saying misinformation about an alleged cholera outbreak caused people to panic and board the boat in an attempt to flee.
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