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Ethiopian migrants head home after brush with death in Mozambique

Yosef Moliso, 20, is one of 14 men who survived when 64 Ethiopian migrants suffocated to death in a shopping container in Mozambique, while trying to make their way to South Africa.

As the truck travelled south, Yosef Moliso and the other Ethiopian migrants trapped inside its sealed cargo container pounded on the walls for help while struggling to breathe.

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