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Kalkidan Yibeltal Jose Tembe
BBC News BBC News, Maputo
Survivors of the ferry disaster that killed dozens of people in northern Mozambique, told Transport Minister Mateus Magala that the victims panicked after seven people living in Quivulane died from diarrhoea and vomiting.
Thirteen suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of prominent Ethiopian opposition politician Bate Urgessa, police in the troubled Oromia region say. One such survivor is 22-year-old Rabia Abacar. She says that her aunt died after being admitted to the nearby Lunga Health Centre. She said that the medication administered did not help to stop the diarrhoea and vomiting.
They haven’t provided details about the This, she explained, panicked them and made them flee in search of a hideout in Mozambique Island.
identities of the suspects but they said a criminal investigation had been launched. The government's initial explanation for Monday's tragedy was that panicked people were fleeing the mainland in large numbers, after false information was maliciously spread telling them they must go to Mozambique Island to escape an ongoing cholera outbreak.
Mr Bate, a senior figure within the Oromo Liberation Front During his visit to Lunga this week, President Felipe Nyusi discouraged people from heeding misinformation, saying: "One can’t run away from death."
(OLF) opposition party, was shot dead earlier this week. Read more on this story: 'I survived the ferry disaster - but lost 17 of my family'
His body was found on Wednesday morning by the side
of the road near a skip in his hometown of Meki.
Family members told local
media that he had been taken from his hotel room by "people who looked like
government security forces" on Tuesday night.
Oromia’s regional government
denied that its security forces were involved in the killing.
Hospital sources
told the BBC that Mr Bate's body exhibited multiple gunshot wounds.
He was
buried on Thursday but questions are being raised about whether proper forensic
investigations were carried out.
The US and the UK government called for an
independent investigation into the killing.
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