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64 dead stowaways found in Mozambique
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Mozambican immigration have found 64 dead bodies in a shipping container on the back of a lorry that had crossed into the country from Malawi, according to officials. The dead, suspected to be Ethiopians, are believed to have suffocated.
86-year-old saxophone player Manu Dibango has died in Paris on Tuesday morning after catching coronavirus.
Tributes have been pouring in for the Cameroonian Afro-jazz legend.
(Image: The lorry was found near this bridge. Credit: Getty)
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