There were 14 survivors.

The victims are believed to be Ethiopian.

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Immigrations officials in the northwestern Mozambique province of Tete stopped the truck from Malawi at the Moatize checkpoint near the Zambezi River..

They heard banging from inside the container and made their grizzly find after ordering the driver to open it.

The 14 survivors were taken to hospital where they will be tested for COVID19.

The Mozambican driver has, according to officials, confessed to having been hired to smuggle people across the border from Malawi.

Authorities say the dozens of dead died of oxygen deprivation.

Last October, Mozambique police stopped a lorry from Malawi carrying 42 people in a container headed for South Africa.

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