Photo: Ghost Ship Fire in San Francisco | By Isabella Kwai, New York Times | The blaze was caused by explosions from fireworks used in the venue, the government said in a statement reported by news agencies. A fire at a nightclub in Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, in the early hours of Sunday left at least 16 people dead and eight others seriously injured, according to news agencies.
Fireworks used inside the venue, Livs Night Club, consumed the building’s ceiling and led to two explosions that caused a stampede, the government said in a statement that called the deaths a “tragedy,” according to the news outlet Agence France-Presse.
Video taken outside the nightclub, which is in the capital’s upscale Bastos district and is close to many foreign embassies, showed some charred objects but no obvious signs of damage to the building’s facade on Sunday. . .
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Read the whole sad story here – shades of the U.S.’s nightclub fires:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/23/world/africa/cameroon-nightclub-fire.html
Cameroon Nightclub Fire Kills at Least 16
