💣💥🇨🇲 Nineteen athletes wounded after blasts at race in Cameroon

Nineteen athletes are treated for blast injuries after multiple small explosions during a running race in part of western Cameroon where English-speaking separatists are fighting government forces, a local doctor said.

There was no immediate comment from authorities in the town of Buea in South-West Region, where 529 athletes were running up the highest mountain in West and Central Africa as they competed in the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope.

"Nineteen athletes have been brought to our facility with injuries. We have operated upon three of them. Their condition is stable and we haven't recorded any deaths," the director of Buea Regional Hospital told.

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