Life is yet to return to normalcy at Damas neighborhood, a locality in Yaounde after a landslide killed about 30 people sources told African Stringers.
This is the place where the landslide occured.Upon arrival,all we could find were debris, Jackhammers,Circular saw,farm tools probably used by rescuers to help victims.This morning,we learnt that there are still a number of people registered missing.The rescue workers who arrived on the scene are however racing to reach people still trapped in rubble,a day after the landslide occured.
“Today’s main task is to focus on evacuating the victims,a police officer said.”
Mr Ako Lilian,an eyewitness says those who were killed were mostly invitees.
“Mostly those who were invited were affected.They gathered under large tents in the waste ground at the top of the hill when part of the ground beneath them gave way.”
“All we could hear were screams,a lady who lives around that neighborhood exclaimed!
“At about 4 pm I saw people running and when I arrived,ground had covered a section of the meeting members.I immediately started digging and rescued some victims.”
Though the Governor of the Center Region Naseri Paul Bea said 15 people were found dead,several inhabitants of the locality say the death toll has risen to over 30.
Living in risky zones in Cameroon.
Several person’s in Cameroon still live in risky Zones,reasons why there is an upsurge in natural disasters, this is the case with the landslide.
Environmental experts have equally warned that living in risk zones exposes person’s to natural disasters but people still relocate there.At Damas neighborhood,”we still find people perched on cliffs”,a source told African stringers.
“Just look at that place where the landslide occured,there is a school and a church owned by Holy Ghost Zone.Can you imagine the havoc if a landslide occurs?let’s be serious the source added.
When we however arrived ,forces of law and order stormed the classes,and asked the kids who occupy that building to evacuate.
“This school is risky,imagine if the class collapses,the kids approximately 60 of them in number will die.We will shut down the school the police officer who decided to be anonymous added.”
Environmentalist,Mr Ngong Peter has however adviced that we should endeavour to buy our plot during the rainy season,and evacuate every zone likely to be risky