Locals and municipal authorities raced to the scene at Caterpillar Field early Sunday morning and the pair was pronounced dead at the scene while a man trapped in the rumbles as a result of the collapse was rushed to hospital.

According to local sources, the deceased are Lum Edith Ngwa, 29 and Comfort Ngwegang Ngwa, 25. The duo, said to be natives of Bafut, Mezam Division of Cameroon’s North West Region, were displaced by the ongoing armed conflict in the country’s English speaking regions.

The third victim of the Sunday morning tragedy, Mbuh Emmanuel is said to be receiving emergency medical care at the Limbe Regional Hospital. Internally Displaced from Muyuka, he is said to be managing to eke out a living by pushing a two-wheeler cart at the Limbe Market.

At the scene of the incident, the City Mayor of Limbe, Motanga Andrew Monjimba said last night’s rains, coupled with the poor construction of the collapsed fence were to blame for the tragedy.

Every year in Limbe, there is a story of mourning associated with rains and poor town planning. Municipal authorities have always promised to take measures to stem the tides, but the story has hardly ever changed.

Follow-up shows that after many years of misery from floods, often associated with lose of loved ones and property, people are currently rebuilding on the reclaimed land which was previously abandoned due to flooding and mudflows. Houses and related structures keep on sprouting in risk zones as officials watch on.

Although it is common knowledge that rains, and the floods and mudflow that sometimes accompany it, are natural phenomenon, the haphazard construction of homes and the indiscriminate dumping of household waste into waterways are to blame.