A makeshift ferry overcrowded with residents reportedly fleeing a cholera outbreak sank off Mozambique’s northern coast, killing at least 98 people, including children, local media said Monday.
The ferry with an estimated 130 people aboard sank Sunday after departing for the Island of Mozambique. At least 11 people were hospitalized, state-run Radio Mozambique quoted island administrator Silvério Nauaito as saying.
Most of the dead were recovered Sunday, but seven bodies were found Monday, bringing the toll to 98, the Noticias newspaper quoted Nauaito as saying.
Maritime authorities continued to search for survivors, Nauaito told the radio station, adding that “it is not easy to say with precision how many remain missing.” Government officials were heading to the accident site Monday, he said.
