Chipaca: Ten days on, there are still those who believe in miracles – Mozambique

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Chipaca: Ten days on, there are still those who believe in miracles – Mozambique

1:01 CAT | 23 Feb 2017

Lusa / Chipaca

It has been ten days since the sinking of a small boat in the Chipaca River between the city of Quelimane and the village of Madal. It carried with it 24 people, and by the force of the waters and its own overloading it failed to reach its destination and foundered. The funerals of six of the victims have already taken place.

Time passes, but hope lives on. Almost every day, there are people standing on the banks of the river in the hope of seeing the miracle of another survivor emerging. The day passes, but no one appears. The government says that there is no longer any point searching, because the period given as the maximum for finding someone alive is already well past.

Even so, this answer doesn’t take root because, as they say “hope is the last thing to die”. So there are people who wait, and wait in faith.

Some lay flowers at the scene of the tragedy, while others are just curious to see with their own eyes the river that just a few days ago swept 24 citizens to their death. On both banks stand people with tears in their eyes from morning till night, any object spotted on the river the subject of wild speculation. But, in the end, nothing.

Come what may, the Chipaca will be forever remembered in the hearts of the ‘chuabos’ (Zambezians) for its brutality.

Source: Diário da Zambézia