Yaoundé (AFP) - At least 11 people were killed Sunday by a landslide during a gathering to honor the dead people in a popular neighborhood in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon , the region's governor told public radio.

An AFP correspondent reported that the police removed four bodies, covered with white sheets, from the popular neighborhood of Damas, on the eastern edge of Yaoundé. The reporter was among hundreds of shocked residents who tried to find their relatives, while ambulance teams were trying to make their way to the scene of the tragedy.

Residents told AFP that several families were under large tents erected on wasteland at the top of a hill, when the ground collapsed under some of those present.

"So far we have 11 bodies. Searches are continuing to find other bodies underground. It was a gathering of people who wanted to cry for members of their families who preceded them to leave. Some of them were sitting under a tent where A landslide occurred in the early evening."