A landslide in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde on Sunday (November 27) killed at least 14 people who were attending a funeral, the region’s governor said.
The corpses have been taken to the mortuary in the central hospital while the search for people or other corpses are still ongoing,” Naseri Paul Bea, governor of Cameroon’s Centre region, told media at the scene.
Dozens of people were attending a funeral on a soccer pitch at the base of a 20-metre high soil embankment, which collapsed on top of them, witnesses told Reuters.
Yaounde is one of the wettest cities in Africa and is made of dozens of steep, shack-lined hills. Heavy rains have triggered several devastating floods throughout the country this year, weakening infrastructure and displacing thousands.
