Many areas of Mozambique are only accessible by boats, which are often overcrowded. / Photo: AP Archive
The overcrowded boat was carrying 130 people and many of those who drowned were children, according to TV Diario Nampula, a local online outlet. The boat was operating between Lunga and the Island of Mozambique in Nampula province in the north of the country when it capsized on Sunday, the report said.
Other news reports quoted Jaime Neto, the secretary of state in Nampula province, as saying that misinformation about an alleged cholera outbreak caused people to panic and board the boat, which ordinarily serves as a fishing vessel, in an attempt to flee.
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