9 folks had been killed and 30 harm Wednesday when a coach overturned in Cameroon, the governor of the northern area of Adamaoua mentioned.
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The car left the capital Yaounde on Tuesday for Ngaoundere some 450 kilometres (270 miles) to the north when it overturned round midday (1100 GMT) at Mbe, governor Kildadi Taguieke Boukar informed AFP.
Boukar, who mentioned dashing but additionally the state of the freeway might have brought on the crash, added the injured had been taken to hospital at Ngaoundere.
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Fourteen folks had been killed, and dozens injured in one other crash in Cameroon, within the nation’s east, three months in the past.
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Some 7,000 folks die in highway accidents yearly in Cameroon, with the World Well being Group estimating a highway fatality price of 30 per 100,000 inhabitants, nicely above its west African neighbours, in newest information from 2018.
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These figures are round seven instances larger than official information with the transport ministry final yr reporting 963 fatalities for 2021.
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