The vessel, a canoe, was carrying 37 people across the Shire River when the incident took place.
A one-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, according to authorities.
Police in the southern African country’s southern district of Nsanje said on Tuesday that the vessel was carrying 37 people across the Shire River when the incident took place on Monday morning.
Malawian police rescued 13 with the help of World Food Programme personnel who were working in the area and provided boats…