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Mozambique: Somalis Die in Shipwreck Off Mozambican Coast

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Original Post Date: 2010-06-08 Time: 19:00:02  Posted By: News Poster

Maputo – At least nine people died on 31 May when a boat containing 82 passengers, all of them of Somali nationality, sunk off the coast of the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, near the town of Mocimboa da Praia.

According to the spokesperson for the General Command of the Mozambican police, Pedro Cossa, briefing reporters on the tragedy on Tuesday, 33 people were rescued from the shipwreck, and the remaining 40 are missing. A week after the sinking it is hard to imagine that any of them can still be alive.

“An effort is still under way, at least to recover the bodies of thse listed as missing”, said Cossa.

The police say that the 82 Somalis were all illegal migrants who entered Mozambique from Tanzania. It is not clear whether they picked up the boat in Tanzania or Mozambique.

Their intended destination may have been South Africa. The police have frequently picked up groups of Somalis in northern Mozambique, who are using the country as a corridor to reach the imagined riches of South Africa.

Genuine refugees are accommodated at the Marratane refugee centre on the outskirts of the northern city of Nampula. Currently there are about 6,000 people accommodated here, mostly from the Horn of Africa and from the Great Lakes region.

The police claim to be stepping up their fight against illegal migration. Cossa announced that last week the police in Maputo picked up a group of 15 Pakistanis who were in the country illegally. He added that the police had arrested two Mozambicans, named only as Abdul and Rafique, who had offered a bribe of 15,000 meticais (about 440 US dollars) for the release of the Pakistanis.

Original Source: Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
Original date published: 8 June 2010

Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201006081156.html?viewall=1