Rescuers trying to find dozens of others reported lacking after a landslide in Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde.
A landslide throughout a funeral ceremony in Cameroon’s capital has killed no less than 14 individuals, the regional governor mentioned, as rescuers continued the seek for dozens of others who stay lacking.
The catastrophe occurred on Sunday as individuals gathered on a soccer pitch on the base of a 20-metre-high soil embankment in Yaounde.
Witnesses instructed the Reuters information company that the embankment collapsed on prime of dozens of individuals.
“On the scene we counted 10 our bodies, however earlier than our arrival 4 our bodies already had been taken away,” mentioned Paul Bea, the governor of the Centre area that features Yaounde.
“There are additionally a dozen critical circumstances dispersed in hospitals,” he mentioned.
The governor described the world the place the landslide happened as a “very harmful spot” and inspired individuals to avoid the Damas district in Yaounde’s jap outskirts.
Amongst those that survived was 50-year-old Marie Claire Mendouga.
“We had simply began to bounce when the bottom collapsed,” she instructed the AFP information company.
She mentioned she “went to dig with my palms” to attempt to get individuals out from beneath the earth and was nonetheless coated within the brown clay from the positioning.
Landslides happen comparatively steadily in Cameroon however are not often as lethal as Sunday’s incident in Yaounde.
Forty-three individuals have been killed within the western metropolis of Bafoussam in 2019 when a landslide triggered by heavy rains swept away a dozen precarious dwellings constructed on the facet of a hill.
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