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Three in Governor’s retinue swept away by Rovubue river waters – Noticias
10:36 CAT | 26 Jan 2022
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- The Navy and the National Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction (INGD) are searching for the three missing people, Noticias has learned.
Three of the five occupants of a vehicle swept away by the swollen waters of the Rovubue river are still missing; Noticias reported on Tuesday (25 January).
The vehicle was part of the retinue of the governor of Tete province (Domingos Viola), which included the mayor of Tete city César de Carvalho) and the Moatize district administrator, Noticias adds.
The [whole] group was trying to cross the bridge over the Rovubuè river to monitor flooding in the riverside areas.
Those missing are a journalist from Radio Mozambique, the driver and a civil servant in the provincial Secretariat of State.
The two other occupants, TVM journalists, escaped with their lives.
The Navy and the National Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction (INGD) are searching for the three missing people, Noticias has learned.
Rádio Moçambique reports that” four vehicles belonging to the governor’s retenue are submerged in the village of Capanga, district of Moatize,: a vehicle from the motorcade of the president of the Municipal Council of the city of Tete (mayor), a support vehicle and [two] others that transported journalists.
Meanwhile, at the Unidade do Aeroporto in Tete city’s Chingodzi neighbourhood, around 3,000 families have already been displaced, and their houses are completely submerged.
Source: Jornal Noticias / Rádio Moçambique
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