HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — At least eight people from one family died after their homemade boat sank in central Mozambique, state media reported Tuesday.
Monday’s sinking in a tributary of the Zambezi River in Sofala province came days after nearly a hundred people, including many children, died in one of the country’s worst shipwrecks.
Mozambique’s state radio station said two people survived on Tuesday and two were missing, citing Nobre dos Santos, administrator of the district where the latest sinking occurred.
The South African country’s public broadcaster attributed the accident to “excess weight and bad weather.”
Many areas of Mozambique, a gas-rich country that is among the poorest in the world, are only accessible by boat, which is often overcrowded.
President Filipe Nyusi last week declared three days of mourning after the April 8 disaster, when a ferry overcrowded with residents reportedly fleeing a feared cholera outbreak capsized off Mozambique’s northern coast, killing at least 98 people died.
