The victims had gathered at the top of a hill for a memorial service for five people when the ground collapsed under part of the audience. theSun theSundaily Cameroon landslide funeral deaths rescue WorldNews
Rescuers prepare to carry a body after a landslide, which killed people who were attending a funeral, the governor of Cameroon’s Centre Region said, in Yaounde, Cameroon November 27, 2022/REUTERSPix: A landslide in Cameroon's capital Yaounde killed at least 11 people attending a funeral on Sunday, a local official told state media.
“Some were sitting in a tent where there was a landslide early this evening,“ Paul Bea, governor of the Centre region that includes Yaounde, told state radio. He added that rescue efforts were ongoing. She said she “went to dig with my hands” to try to get people out from under the earth, and was still covered in the brown clay from the site.The disaster took place in Yaounde's working-class district of Damas, on its eastern outskirts.
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