Doumé: 17-year-old boy dies by drowning

Tragedy shook the city of Doumé in the middle of the celebration of the National Unity Day in Cameroon. A 17-year-old teenager lost his life by drowning on Wednesday, May 20, 2026 in a lake located in the Plateau district, while the population was massively attending the festivities organized on the Place des Fêtes. According to several testimonies collected by our sources, the young boy had gone to the shores of the lake in the company of friends. Not knowing how to swim, he would have ventured alone to the left bank, in an area reputed to be very deep,…