Cameroon fans go wild

YAOUNDE, June 24: Soccer fans in the Cameroon capital Yaounde vented their anger over the early exit of their national team from the World C...

YAOUNDE, June 24: Soccer fans in the Cameroon capital Yaounde vented their anger over the early exit of their national team from the World Cup on whites, jostling them, attacking their property and telling them to go home.

Police used water cannon to disperse an angry crowd outside a supermarket frequented by whites. Three members of the crowd including a one-year-old African baby strapped to its mother’s back, were hurt in the melee.

“Whites don’t like us,” members of the crowd chanted, in a apparent protest at the Hungarian referee’s conduct of the 1-1 draw against Chile in which two `indomitable lions’ players were sent off and a goal was disallowed.

“Go home. You are all racists,” the crowd shouted.

In other incidents, angry fans smashed the lights on a white’s car in the populous Mvog-MBI district and smashed the wind-screen of a car driven by two Chinese nationals.

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said the designation gives law enforcement “enhanced powers to combat a group that has instilled fear through violence and intimidation”.

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