Nearly 50 girls fall into a trance at New Bell school

It was a black Thursday at the Evangelical College of New Bell in the 2nd district of Douala when some students, specifically girls, fell into a trance in a room.

While management of the secondary school was dealing with the cases, many suffered the same phenomenon in other classrooms, according to a well-connected source.

"At around 11am, classes 6 and 4 had nearly fifty students, and only girls suffering from the same symptoms causing total panic in the institution", one of the workers of the Evangelical Church of Cameroon said.

Students were moving about in all directions and parents who were informed of the situation besieged the school in tears.

In shock, the leaders of the institution decided to interrupt classes which usually ended at 16 hours. The forces of law and order were called upon to help control the hysterical crowd.

Firefighters and emergency departments of some hospitals also came to the scene as victims who could not be resuscitated on the field (about 27 cases), were transported to the emergency department of the hospital of Laquintinie Douala and District Hospital in New Bell.

All attempts to contact the head of the college, Pastor Jules Simo Kamgue were unsuccessful.

However, the causes of this phenomenon of mass hysteria are still unsolved.

According to the testimony of some students, a group of seven students from the same college, belonging to an esoteric circle is the cause of this tragedy as "was predicted a member of this group of class 5."

It is noted that this is not the first time the city of Douala is facing this kind of event that affects, in particular, girls in schools as everywhere else where this phenomenon has been observed.