Cameroon: 11 killed in a boat sinking incident in the North region

Eleven people have died following the sinking of their boat on the Logone river on Thursday. Cameroon government sources say the eleven people included seven women, three of them pregnant, three men and an infant. 

Fissou Kouma, the mayor of Yagoua in the North region also observed that the boatman and the mother of a newborn survived the sinking. The cause of the tragedy has still not been made public. However, Cameroon Concord gathered the canoe was rocked by a violent storm.