Mbouda: Two die, many injured in road accident
By Stephen TADAHA
At least two people have died and many others injured in a fatal road accident along the Mbouda-Dschang stretch in the night on Tuesday night.
The accident according to witneses occured at a place called Moyang in Bamekoua’a village not far from the Bangang market following a head to head collision between a 70-seater interurban transport bus which was heading to the South West Region and a semi-trailer transporting cement bound for Bamenda. This left two dead with several injuries recorded according to accounts by the Batcham gendarmerie brigade commander, Chief Warrant Officer Enguene Jean Baptiste.
According to testimonies given by locals and some surviving victims, the shock started from a brakes failure from the semi-trailer truck which ended up finding itself on the opposite lane.
“At about 10pm we heard a loud noise and before we could discover, the trailer was already on our lane ” a survivor narrated.
The disheveled state of the two vehicles involved in the accident sufficiently demonstrates the violent nature of the shock.
“We gave 49 injured, with 18 in critical state with 5 evacuated to Bafoussam with two deaths ” the Brigade commander confirmed.
Some of the survivors are in intensive care at the Batcham health center while others who are in critical state, have been referred Bafoussam.
The two deceased were taken to the Mbouda hospital morgue.
The Mbouda -Dschang section which is part of the road to open up the West agricultural basin is still under construction.
However, it is already subjected to intense vehicle traffic on the Bamenda – Douala, Mbouda-Douala and Mbouda Dschang axis.
