Road accidents continue to cause embarrassment for citizens traveling in Maputo city. This time, Avenida 24 de Julho, near the Malanga market, witnessed a multiple vehicle collision. The collision involved more than four vehicles, including a semi-collective passenger transport, which was leaving downtown in the direction of...
Road accident kills eight people in Nampula
An apparent road accident killed eight people on board a semi-collective passenger transport vehicle on Monday in the Namina Administrative Post, Mecubúri district, in Nampula province. Six people died on the spot. Most of the victims were shopkeepers. The accident also resulted in the injury of around...
Road accident kills 45 Easter pilgrims in South Africa
A bus crash in northern South Africa killed 45 pilgrims traveling from Botswana for Easter festivities on Thursday, authorities said, with the only survivor being an eight-year-old girl currently being treated in hospital. South African police said that 31 female passengers and 15 male...
Katembe: SERNIC agent and three other people from the same family die in road accident
Four people, all from the same family, died in a road accident this Sunday in the municipal district of Katembe, Maputo city, writes the newspaper "O País". According to the source, the driver was an agent of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique, assigned to the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC). The authorities...
Greater Maputo: Truck knocks down electricity pole, affecting power and water supply
A truck accident has knocked down an electricity pole, leaving part of the town of Boane, on the outskirts of Maputo, without electricity and affecting the water supply to the country's capital. According to a statement released this Saturday by Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), the truck accident occurred at the beginning of the...
Road accident causes 17 injuries in Manhiça
Seventeen people suffered serious and minor injuries as a result of six accidents over the weekend in the district of Manhiça, Maputo province. The accidents took place on National Road Number One (EN1). Of the 17 people injured, four are in serious condition and have been transferred to Maputo Central Hospital, 11 have been discharged, while the rest...
South Africa: Mozambicans reported missing in platinum mine accident
Two Mozambicans have been missing since Monday's accident at the Impala Platinum mine in Rosternberg, North West Province, South Africa. So far, 16 people have died and 75 have been injured. Regarding the missing Mozambicans, Rádio Moçambique reported this morning that there is still no certainty as to whether or not they are still alive....
Maputo: passenger bus loses brakes and leaves two dead and ten injured
Two people died and ten others were injured as a result of an accident caused by a passenger bus that suffered mechanical faults in its braking system while driving down Guerra popular avenue in Maputo city. It was a machimbombo-type car on the Albazine-Baixa route which, in addition to the human victims, damaged...
Manica: Only two bodies still to be recovered from Catandica accident
The authorities in Manica province, Mozambique, say that only two bodies are still missing from the road accident that killed 20 people last Thursday (07), in the town of Catandica, Báruè district. The accident occurred when a passenger car crashed into a cargo truck and the victims...
Collision between trains injures 39 in Moamba, Maputo
The Executive Director of Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (CFM), in the southern region, said that a rail accident involving trains in the early hours of today caused 39 injuries, in the district of Moamba, Maputo province. The 39 lightly injured, five of whom were children, were taken to the Moamba Health Center, 31 were discharged from hospital,...