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Landslide Eye witness Wants Thorough Search, fears victims are trapped Underground 

Symbolic grave, broken chairs at landslide area

After a press release by government on the dead toll of a  landslide that occured at Damase neighborhood in Yaounde, Cameroon. An inhabitant is craving for manual search on fears that body parts may be buried underground. 

"I don't think the number of victims declared dead by the government is the actual number of deaths. I was one of those who voluntarily rushed to rescue victims after the incident. A bulldozer came escarvating the soil searching for the corpses. I still fear that body parts are deep underground. I think a manual search would be more effective and should be done because there could be body parts underground. Human beings are sacred" eyewitness, Ottou Atanga, told the press.

The landslide occured November 27, 2022 when a family was doing funeral celebration. A reclining surface of the earth void of embarkment breakaway, 4 pm on Sunday hitting people sitting. This injured some persons, others died. 

After the incident, Cameroon's Ministry of Territorial Administration, released a press release establishing that 4 formally identified injured persons from the incident are being treated at medical facilities while fifteen died. 

 By Mildred Ndum Wung Kum

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