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8:20 CAT | 05 Oct 2016
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Four illegal Ethiopian migrants died, and a further 40 were injured, when the truck they were travelling in overturned and collided with another vehicle last Friday in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado.
According to a report in Tuesday’s issue of the Maputo daily “Noticias”, the incident occurred in Nangade district, on the border with Tanzania.
The Ethiopians were hidden inside a container carried by a Mitsubishi Canter truck, which was driving from Nangade to the Cabo Delgado provincial capital, Pemba. The national immigration service (SENAMI) believes they entered the container in Nangade (after crossing the Rovuma river, which forms the Tanzanian border).
The injured Ethiopians received medical treatment in the provincial hospital in Pemba. 21 have been discharged and are now in a Pemba police station waiting repatriation. The others are still in hospital. Once they are well enough to travel, they too will be repatriated.
SENAMI spokesperson Cira Fernandes said the truck driver fled the scene after the accident, and the police authorities are still looking for him. They are also trying to locate the owner of the truck.
Under the law on illegal immigration, anyone who helps or shelters illegal immigrants will be obliged to pay the costs of feeding and repatriating them, in addition to fines and a prison sentence of between two and eight years.
Fernandes said that none of the 44 Ethiopians were in possession of passports or any other form of identification.
Source: AIM / TVM
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