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Yaounde, Cameroon Africa(Cameroon News) – A major landslide in Bonanjo, Cameroon has left a worker seriously injured.

A huge land slide on a cliff in Plateau Joss in Bonanjo on Friday, injuring a worker at a construction site in the region. The worker was reported to have sustained serious injuries.

A lot of houses in Douala has also been subject to flooding, and a lot of surrounding regions have been issued stringent warnings for likely disaster as the landslides as rainstorms have still not stopped. As a result, Djemo-BTP Construction Company may be pressurized to temporarily postpone the project beside FERCAM Board Office in Bonanjo by environment and human rights officials since there is a strong likelihood of more landslides. The review reports have been issued on the basis of a study undertaken by Local NGO, Organisation of Human Rights and Citizens Protection, OHRCP, officials and were announced to the media in Douala last Sunday.

Mohammed Awell, 23, has been seriously injured when rock pieces and huge chunks of boulder fell over him as he rolled down the steep cliff. The medical reports indicate that his belly has been crushed and left leg injured on dry concrete-coated floor that is built on the slopes of the highland by the company to curb erosion. The small landslide was allegedly caused by the construction operations undertaken at the level of the foundation for a huge construction. Mohammed Awell, who was buried under the mud and rock for about 10 minutes before he was rescued, was taken into a local clinic for emergency assistance. Bonanjo residents came into the region, and with the demanded that the workers’ representative, Cyrille Fokam, and another official be taken into custody but later freed them after questioning.

The organisation’s President and Ecologist, Raoul Kemajou Prince Nasser, explained that the construction project never adhered to any previous geological mandates and, “if there were environmental impact assessments, then it was simply a shady arrangement. No effective studies can prove such a site feasible for housing.”