At least 11 people perished Sunday, November 27 in a landslide during a meeting in tribute to the deceased in a popular district of Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, announced the governor of the region on public radio CRTV.
Four bodies covered in white sheets were evacuated in the early evening by the police in the working-class district of Damascus, on the eastern outskirts of Yaoundé, reports an AFP journalist who finds himself among hundreds of panicked residents looking for loved ones, and rescuers trying to make their way to the scene of the tragedy.
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Many families had settled in several large tents on a vacant lot at the top of a hill when the ground subsided under part of the assistance, told AFP several residents on the spot.
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For the moment we have 11 bodies, the search is continuing to find other bodies under the ground
", explained on the airwaves of CRTV Naseri Paul Bea, the governor of the Center region, of which Yaoundé is the capital. .
“
It's a meeting of people who wanted to mourn the members
” of their families “
who left before them.
Some were sitting in a tent where there was a landslide in the early evening
,” he continued.
