1-Year-Old Dead, 23 Missing After Hippo Attacks Canoe on River in Malawi
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The long wooden canoe was carrying 37 people across the Shire River on their way to neighboring Mozambique when it was hit by the hippo in the Nsanje district on Monday.
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By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — A toddler has died after a boat ferrying more than 30 villagers across the Shire River in Malawi’s Nsanje district was attacked by a hippo, causing it to overturn, authorities said.
A 1-year-old child died and 23 people were missing and feared dead after a hippopotamus charged into and capsized a canoe on a river in southern Malawi, authorities said Tuesday.
Six more bodies, including those of two teenagers, were found floating in Malawi's Shire River on Wednesday, raising the total death toll from a hippopotamus attack on a canoe to seven.
The long wooden canoe was carrying 37 people across the Shire River on their way to neighboring Mozambique when it was hit by the hippo in the Nsanje district on Monday.
