Friday, February fourteenth, the UN says at least 22 people have been killed in a village in the Northwest region of Cameroon. Over half of those killed were children. No one has claimed responsibility for Friday’s incident but the opposition parties blame the killing on the government.
Powerful quake raffles New Zealand
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Two
people are confirmed to have died after a powerful earthquake in New Zealand
caused a series of aftershocks, causing damage to buildings and leading
residents to evacuate their homes for higher ground to avoid tsunami waves.
Authorities
said they were not yet declaring a national emergency, saying the regions are
coping well.
The
magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the country's South Island just after midnight
on Sunday, with the epicentre recorded 57 miles north-northeast of the eastern
city of Christchurch.
Shortly
afterwards a two-metre high tsunami was recorded in Kaikoura on the east coast
of the South Island, with smaller but “very dangerous” waves later hitting the
coast near Wellington, according to local weather site Weather Watch.
The
Civil Defence authority advised South Island residents living on the east coast
and those living on the nearby Chatham Islands to move to higher ground.
On
Monday morning a strong new tremor with a magnitude of 6.2, struck New
Zealand's South Island, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Helicopters
with medical and rescue personnel are being sent near the epicentre of the
quake, where it opened up snaking fissures in roads and triggered
landslides.
St
John's Ambulance Dion Rosario said in a statement: “We are starting to get
reports of injuries from the earthquake area, including Culverden area and
Kaikoura.
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