{"id":230233,"date":"2023-07-24T13:20:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T05:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=230233"},"modified":"2023-07-24T13:20:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T05:20:17","slug":"cameroon-building-collapses-in-douala-city-killing-at-least-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=230233","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Building collapses in Douala city, killing at least 12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.wionews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/story_page\/public\/2023\/07\/24\/368984-wion-images-2023-07-24t003607633.png?imwidth=1920\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>DOUALA (Cameroon), July 24 (NNN-ALLAFRICA) &#8212; A four-story building collapsed in Cameroon&#8217;s most populous city Douala, with at least 12 people losing their lives, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Douala, located in the western Littoral region, is Cameroon&#8217;s commercial center and most populous city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four-story building was in the city&#8217;s eastern Ange Raphael neighborhood. It fell down onto another residential building, around midnight local time (2300 UTC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Twelve died and the others are in hospital for medical attention,&#8221; Littoral Governor Samuel Dieudonne Ivaha Diboua said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that 31 people in total were affected by the collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Municipal councilor Charles Elie Zang Zang said that rescue services were searching through the rubble for survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause of the collapse was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June 2023, local authorities identified 500 buildings in danger of collapse throughout the city. &#8212; NNN-ALLAFRICA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOUALA (Cameroon), July 24 (NNN-ALLAFRICA) &#8212; A four-story building collapsed in Cameroon&#8217;s most populous city Douala, with at least 12 people losing their lives, authorities said. Douala, located in the western Littoral region, is Cameroon&#8217;s commercial center and most populous city. The four-story building was in the city&#8217;s eastern Ange Raphael neighborhood. It fell down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230234,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230233\/revisions\/230234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}