YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon — A landslide in Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, killed at the very least 14 individuals attending a funeral on Sunday, the area’s governor mentioned.
Rescuers have been nonetheless looking for others who might need been swept up within the catastrophe, Naseri Paul Bea, governor of Cameroon’s Centre area, advised reporters on the scene.
Dozens of individuals had been attending a funeral on a soccer discipline on the base of a 60-foot-high embankment when it collapsed on them, witnesses mentioned.
Yaoundé, a metropolis of about 2.8 million individuals, is without doubt one of the wettest cities in Africa and is fabricated from dozens of steep, shack-lined hills. Heavy rains have triggered a number of devastating floods all through the nation this yr, weakening infrastructure and displacing 1000’s of individuals.
Final month neighboring Nigeria experienced its worst flooding in a decade, with a whole bunch of individuals killed and 200,000 houses at the very least partly destroyed.
Scientists found this month that the heavy rainfall that led to the catastrophe in Nigeria and neighboring nations in October was made about 80 occasions as possible by human-caused local weather change.
