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A boy has died after a ship crossing the Shire River in Malawi’s Nsanje district was attacked by a ship crossing, killing greater than 30 villagers, authorities mentioned.
Police spokeswoman Agnes Zalakoma mentioned the incident occurred within the early hours of Monday and that 23 of the boat’s 37 passengers have been lacking and feared lifeless within the water, which is infested with crocodiles and hippos.
“The sympathizers managed to rescue 13 folks whereas one other 23 disappeared and the kid’s physique was discovered,” Zalakoma mentioned in an announcement on Monday, including that the deceased baby was just one 12 months previous.
Rescuers are persevering with to seek for the lacking folks, Zalakoma’s assertion added.
Zalakoma instructed CNN on Tuesday that it was harmful to cross the river and that accidents are widespread.
“It’s too harmful as a result of (the river) could be very shallow and there are crocodiles on this river that the majority usually assault folks and in addition hippos that trigger incidents just like the one we’re coping with,” Zalakoma mentioned.
In response to a lawmaker from Nsanje district, Gladys Gandathe villagers have been crossing the Shire River to achieve their farms on the Malawi-Mozambique border when their boat was hit by a hippopotamus.
Hippos are one of the crucial harmful animals on the earth and may cut up a canoe in half with their robust jaws. in line with Nationwide Geographic.
They’re discovered naturally in elements of sub-Saharan Africaparticularly in East and South Africa.
Hippo assaults are additionally widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. In December, a two-year-old Ugandan boy was attacked by a hippo that he swallowed half of her physique earlier than spitting it outUgandan police mentioned.
