Bangem: Accident leaves Equinoxe TV correspondent dead, CRTV workers injured.

. It also left two workers of the Cameroon Radio Television, CRTV, wounded.

The two CRTV staff involved in the mishap are Regina Ngale Ndoko, a journalist and Nkengafac Valery, a cameraman. Another person who died in the accident was Ewang Divine Etone, a driver working with the South West Development Authority, SOWEDA. 

The team was said to be part of a delegation of the South West Regional Delegate of Basic Education, Elangwe Rose Bume, who was touring schools in Bangem Subdivision.

The Guardian Post gathered that after arriving Bangem, the delegate and her delegation had opted to visit the Muanenguba twin lakes before returning to the day’s activity at the Bangem Grandstand. 

Authoritative sources disclosed that the team left the lake for the heart of Bangem, when a Hilux vehicle that was part of the delegate’s convoy veered off track and summersaulted. The dead and those wounded were said to be in the said Hilux.

Some locals in Bangem who rushed to the scene of the accident linked the happenstance to break failure. While the driver, Etone, is said to have died on the spot, the Equinox TV staff, Djakino, we learnt, gave up the ghost moments after medics battled to safe his live.

Meanwhile, in the face of the commotion that hit Bangem, following the accident, security officers are said to have rushed the two CRTV journalists to a health facility in Nkongsamba. They are said to have been put on oxygen to handle the shock of the accident. We also gleaned that they were transported in military amoured cars. 

The private secretary of the delegate, Nakeli Ernest and another staff of the Regional Delegation of Basic Education for the South West Region, Nkemmtaji Benjamin, are also said to have been rushed to Nkongsamba yesterday. 

Another person wounded in the accident was Ebong Walters, Head Teacher of Government Primary School Muaku.

Following the happenstance, pupils who had gathered at the Bangem Grandstand were asked to go home. 

At the time we went to press last night, administrative and health authorities in Bangem were still battling to handle the situation.