Eight people died off the coast of Mozambique Island, in the northern province of Nampula, on Sunday when the boat they were travelling in sank.According to a report in Tuesday’s issue of the independent daily “O Pais”, the shipwreck resulted from a combination of bad weather and overcrowding of the vessel. The boat, belonging to the Nampula Maritime Administration, should have carried only ten passengers, but 38 people were on board.The dead were six students from a Mozambican Island girls’ college and two Spanish catholic nuns. According to the Mayor of Mozambique Island, Alfredo Matata, one of the nuns worked at the school and the other was on holiday.The nuns were taking 21 pupils, aged between 15 and 18, on a school trip to the lighthouse located a few kilometres from the island. Such excursions are a normal occurrence, but normally take place between October and March, months when the seas around Mozambique Island are usually calm.One of the bodies of the drowned girls has not yet been recovered. The salvage operations are said to be difficult due to the depth of the water where the boat sank.The bodies of the two nuns have been taken to the morgue in Nampula Central Hospital, and will be flown back to Spain.
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