C T Online Desk: The death toll from a building collapse in Cameroon’s business hub Douala has risen to 40, the regional governor told AFP Wednesday, meaning three more bodies have been recovered.
The four-storey block of flats collapsed onto another residential building in the north of the city overnight on Saturday.
The toll, which has risen from the 37 dead announced on Monday, remains provisional, and could rise further.
The current toll is 40, with 20 others injured, including four in critical condition, according to the communications office of Samuel Dieudonne Ivaha Diboua, governor of the Littoral region.
