It is noted that the seventy-seat bus was heading to the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde.
In the village of Nemale, he collided with a truck while trying to avoid a crowd of people on the road.
"Most of the passengers were returning from Christmas to their relatives to celebrate the New Year, or they were businessmen carrying gifts for the New Year holidays," the agency quoted high-ranking official Absalom Monono Voloa as saying.
In October in northeastern China in Jilin province, 18 people were killed in an accident.