{"id":6249,"date":"2019-10-30T09:15:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T06:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6249"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","slug":"at-least-42-perish-in-cameroon-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/30\/at-least-42-perish-in-cameroon-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"At Least 42 Perish In Cameroon Landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Daily\nNation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 42 people were killed after their houses were swept away Tuesday in a landslide caused by torrential rain in the western Cameroon city of Bafoussam, state media reported, showing images of rescuers desperately sifting through the rubble for survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Searches\nare ongoing. We fear there are further deaths,&#8221; a senior local official\ntold AFP on condition of anonymity as nightfall neared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A total of\n42 bodies were taken to the hospital in the city, according to an official\nstatement read on Cameroon Radio Television (CRTV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Media\nreports had earlier spoken of about 30 dead, with the radio reporting that four\npregnant women were among the victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Collapsed Houses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pictures of the tragedy in Bafouassam posted on social media showed ramshackle houses having crumbled into the ochre-coloured terrain and men clad in hard hats digging away at piles of mud in the search for survivors. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/africa\/Dozens-dead-in-Cameroon-landslide\/1066-5329750-p9jptj\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation At least 42 people were killed after their houses were swept away Tuesday in a landslide caused by torrential rain in the western Cameroon city of Bafoussam,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}