At least 12 people have died and dozens injured in Cameroon's business hub, Douala, after a four storey building collapsed in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The cause of the collapse is unclear but the taller building appears to have fallen onto a smaller one. Emergency services remained at the scene into Sunday evening.
Samuel Ivaha Diboua is the Governor of the Littoral region said "A 4-storey house collapsed and we recorded 31 people, 12 of whom died. The others are currently in hospital receiving medical treatment."
It is thought the death toll could rise as rescue workers search the remnants of the two apartment blocks.
Local residents said the incident occurred around midnight but it was not until the early hours of the morning that emergency services arrived.
One local hospital said it had treated 13 cases arising from the tragedy and recorded two deaths, including "a three-year-old girl and a 19-year-old girl."
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