China News Agency, Beijing, March 24. Maputo news: Officials from Tete province in central Mozambique confirmed on the 24th local time that police found 64 bodies in a truck container in the early morning of the same day, and 14 others survived. He is Ethiopian.
The BBC quoted Amelia Direto, an officer of the Tete Provincial Immigration Service, as saying that the truck had entered the country illegally from Malawi, destined for South Africa, and was stopped by police in the Moatize district of Tete. . Direto said the truck once refused to stop while under inspection. Immigration officials heard a noise in the truck and suspected that immigrants were in the truck. She said the country's problem of trafficking in migrants was worrying and local immigration authorities were tightening controls at the border.
Sources said that South Africa's local health department and immigration law enforcement were investigating the incident, and two related personnel, including the driver, had been detained.
Tete Health Director Carla Moss said that the deceased inside the container was initially determined to have died from suffocation, but an autopsy will still be performed to determine the cause of death. In addition, since Ethiopia has confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia, they will also conduct medical tests and isolate observations of survivors.
According to Agence France-Presse, South Africa is the most industrialized country on the African continent. It not only attracts immigrants from neighboring countries such as Lesotho and Zimbabwe, but also Ethiopia and other countries have arrived in South Africa. Mozambique is considered as a sneak passage for immigrants to South Africa. (Finish)