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2:56 CAT | 12 Mar 2021
File photo: Portal do Governo da Província de Sofala
Three children aged between the ages of six and nine years old have been missing since Thursday on a stretch of the Zambeze river in Chemba district, central Mozambique, local authorities have announced.
The children were trying to reach their vegetable gardens on a small island in the river when the canoe in which they were travelling began to take on water and sank.
Two other young people travelling in the same boat survived and were rescued by local people.
Local authorities in Chemba district, Sofala province, say that the search to find the children is still underway, but that the river in that area is deep.
The accident comes just days after four members of the same family disappeared in the neighbouring district of Caia, when the canoe in which they were travelling sank in a tributary of the Zambeze river.
Source: Lusa
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