The German Federal Aviation Accident Investigation Bureau has released its preliminary report into the tragic plane crash that killed Malawi's former vice-president, Saulos Chilima. The report shows a series of deficiencies in the aircraft that was carrying Chilima, from the Emergency Locator Transmitter that had been out of service for 20 years, and a...
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Manica : Two dead and four injured in road accident
A car crashed into a house, causing two deaths and four injuries. The accident happened at dawn on Saturday, in the Centro Hípico neighborhood, in Chimoio, in Manica province, according to "O País". According to the publication, the dead are the owner of the house that was hit and his...
Maputo: Accident leaves 16,000 customers without electricity in Matola
A road accident yesterday, Thursday (5), left 16,000 customers without power in the municipality of Matola, Maputo province, southern Mozambique. According to a note from Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), these are the neighborhoods of Liberdade, Liqueleva, Matola B, Matola D, Matola F, Matola J, part of Matola H, Mussumbuluco and part of Malhampsene which...
Aircraft crash kills two and injures one in Malawi
Two people died and one sustained minor injuries as a result of an aircraft crash on Tuesday afternoon in the Nkhotakota district of Malawi. A statement from the local Ministry of Information and Digitization said that the aircraft was carrying the pilot and two passengers, and was bound for Makhanga, in Liwonde. The crew member...
Video: Plane crash kills more than 60 people in Brazil
More than 60 people died on Friday afternoon (09) as a result of a plane crash in a residential area of the city of Vinhedo, about 80 km from São Paulo, Brazil. According to local media reports, 61 or 62 people were on board the VoePass Linhas Aéreas aircraft, of...
Niassa: Four killed in road accident
Four people died in a road accident on Saturday night, on National Road number 13, in the district of Cuamba, Niassa. The accident, which killed all the occupants of the car, was a crash and rollover and happened at around 9pm and was heading in the Lichinnga-Cuamba direction, writes Rádio Moçambique. Authorities...
Niassa: Five killed in road accident
Five people lost their lives and three were seriously injured in a road accident that took place today in the district of Chimbonila, Niassa province. The accident occurred at around 2.45am on the EN14, a few meters after the bridge over the Chimbonila River, involving a Hino heavy goods vehicle, model...
Cabo Delgado: Mining accident causes one death and one injury
One person died and another was injured as a result of the collapse of a shaft made by illegal miners in Cabo Delgado province. The accident happened on Wednesday in an area belonging to the Montepuez Ruby Mining (MRM) company. In a statement quoted by "Noticias", the company said that in order to prevent situations of this kind, it has been carrying out continuous awareness-raising...
'Slavery' at Vulcan: Employees denounce exhaustion as the cause of recurring accidents
In the space of a month this year, around seven work accidents were recorded at Vulcan's mining camps in the Moatize district of Tete province. At least five workers had to receive immediate outpatient treatment due to the seriousness of their injuries. A Zitamar publication reports that company sources point to fatigue...
Death row: Truck collision kills four in Manhiça
Four more people lost their lives yesterday as a result of a collision between two trucks in the town of 3 de Fevereiro, in Maputo province. These are four more of the hundreds of Mozambicans who have lost their lives in this town in recent years. Sources at the scene say that one of the trucks was coming from Inhambane to...