"There were jostling like we record everywhere else during large crowd movements. We are waiting for reliable information on the victims," ​​said Abel Mbengué, spokesperson for the CAN Organizing Committee ( CoCan), lamenting a "dramatic incident".

The Cameroonian authorities, requested by AFP, have not yet communicated on any assessment.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF), which organizes the continent's flagship competition, for its part dispatched its secretary general "to the bedside of the victims admitted to hospitals in Yaoundé".

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