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Yaounde,
Nov
28:
At
least
14
people
attending
a
funeral
in
Cameroon’s
capital
Yaounde
were
killed
by
a
landslide
Sunday,
the
region’s
governor
said.
The
victims
were
part
of
a
group
that
had
gathered
to
mourn
the
deaths
of
several
relatives.
What
do
we
know
so
far?
Dozens
of
people
were
attending
a
funeral
on
a
soccer
pitch
at
the
base
of
a
20-meter
high
soil
embankment,
which
collapsed
on
top
of
them,
witnesses
told
Reuters.
An
AFP
reporter
saw
four
large
white
tents
at
the
hill’s
summit,
on
the
edge
of
what
seemed
to
be
a
ridge,
beyond
which
the
ground
had
disappeared.
“We
are
carrying
the
corpses
to
the
mortuary
of
the
central
hospital,”
Naseri
Paul
Bea,
governor
of
Cameroon’s
central
region,
told
media
at
the
scene.
“The
search
to
find
other
bodies
under
the
earth
is
continuing,”
he
added.
Italy:
At
least
7
dead
after
Ischia
landslide
Early
Sunday
evening,
police
pick-up
trucks
took
away
bodies
covered
by
white
sheets,
an
AFP
correspondent
at
the
scene
said.
Emergency
services
were
trying
to
make
their
way
to
the
site,
as
hundreds
of
local
people
frantically
searched
for
loved
ones.
Some
people
in
the
crowd
wept
as
emergency
workers
searched
the
site.
The
disaster
happened
in
the
working-class
district
of
Damas,
on
the
eastern
outskirts
of
the
capital.
Kerala:
Landslide
kills
5
of
family
A
wetter
than
usual
year
Yaounde
is
one
of
the
cities
in
Africa
that
receives
the
most
precipitation.
The
capital
consists
of
dozens
of
steep,
shack-lined
hills.
Heavy
rains
have
triggered
several
devastating
floods
throughout
the
country
this
year,
weakening
infrastructure
and
displacing
thousands.
Source: DW
