/ 4 January 2000

FOUR MORE BODIES FOUND IN COCOA

FOUR more bodies have been found in the hold of a Liberian-registered cargo ship, the Karonga, which was unloading 8500 tons of cocoa in the port of Ilheus, bringing the total of dead stowaways to 10. The bodies of six other stowaways, believed to be Africans traveling without papers, were found on Friday on the same ship. The federal police in Ilheus said the stowaways probably died from exposure to a toxic powder used to protect the cocoa from insects.