At least 42 people killed after their houses were swept away in a landslide caused by torrential rain in the western Cameroon city of Bafoussam, state media reports
Rescue personnel shift a body from the rubble of a landslide in Bafoussam Cameroon, October 29, 2019.
A total of 42 bodies were taken to the hospital in the city, according to an official statement read on Cameroon Radio Television . "The houses that collapsed were built on the side of a hill in a risk zone," said the local official in the West Region, of which Bafoussam is the capital, some 300 kilometres northwest of the capital Yaounde.
Landslides are quite exceptional in the area although further south they are less rare in the rainy season, notably in the English-speaking southwest.
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