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Zambia’s police service said it was investigating the deaths of 27 men. Ethiopian citizens, Their bodies were “dumped” by the roadside near the capital Lusaka on Sunday.
Police spokesman Danny Mwale said: statement A total of 28 victims were found abandoned along Chiminuka Road in the Ngwerere district of Lusaka.
Only one of the men, all between the ages of 20 and 38, survived, Mwale said.
Police said in a statement that “one of the 28 people was found dead and dying” and that the bodies of the 27 were transferred to a morgue in Lusaka where “formal identification and autopsy were carried out”. I am waiting for you,” he added.
Police said the lone survivor was taken to hospital for treatment.
Ethiopians are taking desperate steps to flee Africa’s second most populous country.
Some Ethiopian citizens were tempted by promises of job opportunities in South Africa, but ended up in dire straits. An immigration officer quoted by the Lusaka Times.
Latest discovery comes less than two months from police in neighboring Malawi found a cemetery It contained the bodies of 25 Ethiopians in the northern Mzimba district of Malawi.
The next day, the bodies of four more Ethiopian citizens were found “in a decomposing state” near a mass grave in Mzimba, Malawian police said at the time.
like Malawi, Popular Routes of Syndicate SmugglingZambia is described as both “Transit and Destination Countries” For illegal immigrants from the Horn of Africa transiting through a country in southern Africa for the purpose of reaching South Africa.
In July, immigration authorities in Zambia seized more than 50 Ethiopians believed to have been smuggled on their way to South Africa.
