Forty-two Malawians suffocate in truck FORTY-TWO immigrants from Malawi have been found dead in a truck in central Tanzania, having perished from asphyxiation, Deputy Interior Minister Pereira Silima said. "They died of suffocation and had no food," Mr Silima said. "There were more than 100 people in the truck," a local administration official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. After he had learnt of the dead bodies, the driver abandoned the truck and ran away. The bodies were discovered in the truck in Dodoma province, about 400 kilometres west of Dar es-Salaam.