Sixty Somali refugees have drowned on Lake Malawi, just as the country is setting up commemorations of World Refugees Day with events slated at the immigrant's headquarters, Dzaleka. Only 35 bodies have so far been retrieved, as Karonga Police have confirmed.
The immigrants were sneaking into Malawi through the lakeshore district of Karonga from neighbouring Tanzania.
Lately, a number of illegal immigrants, mostly from Ethiopia and Somalia, have been arrested trying to sneak into the country through uncharted routes, suggestively prompting allegations they were trying to use the lake to avoid more arrests.
Government has responded to the sad news by sending Karonga District Commissioner, Gasten Macheka, to Kaporo to assess the situation.
The incident is the first in the history of Malawi and immigrants on the lake, which formulates a border with Tanzania up north and Mozambique in the centre and the south.
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