More than 60 drowned in Cameroon boat capsize

YAOUNDE, Feb 5 (Reuters) More than 60 people were drowned off southwest Cameroon at the weekend when a motor boat crowded with pasengers and cargo capsized on its way to Nigeria, witnesses and survivors said today.

Fon Achobang, a local newspaper reporter, told Reuters he and other colleagues saw 63 bodies being buried yesterday after the accident, which occurred late on Saturday around 20 km west of the coastal town of Limbe.

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