Almost 100 people killed as overcrowded boat sinks off Mozambique
People fleeing a reported cholera outbreak in Mozambique packed onto a fishing boat, trying to use it to flee, but it sank offshore.
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People fleeing a reported cholera outbreak in Mozambique packed onto a fishing boat, trying to use it to flee, but it sank offshore.
"The health and safety of passengers as well as that of the country as a whole are of the utmost importance to the authorities," the port authority of Mauritius said.
Mauritius authorities blocked the ship from docking for a day because 15 people on board had vomiting and diarrhea.
The World Health Organization said it was "extremely dangerous" for the lab to be put at risk amid the fighting in Sudan, which could fuel an exodus of 270,000 refugees.
The southern African nation saw a 143% increase in the number of cholera cases recorded last month compared to December.
This marks the country's worst outbreak of the waterborne illness in two decades.
All military personnel and civilians from the ship were pulled back onto a smaller taxi boat and then hoisted onto the Navy vessel.
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