A boat carrying 60 passengers has sunk off Campo on Cameroon's coast, leaving 30 people dead or missing, Cameroon's national radio reported Tuesday. The ramshackle vessel went down on June 30 in the west African Gulf of Guinea waters as it was on its way from Nigeria to Gabon, the radio report said.
A radio news correspondent said the boat was carrying people from Nigeria, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso "who left Nigeria for Gabon in hopes of making a living and were probably taken by surprise by the bad weather conditions".
Cameroonian fishermen went to the rescue and were able to save 30 people who were hospitalised in Kribi, a town 300 kilometres (185 miles) south-west of Yaounde.
Rescue teams had been unable to find the bodies of all those believed to have perished, but an unspecified number of them were washed up on shore, the report said.
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