U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power's Motorcade Hits, Kills Boy In Cameroon

Source: CNN

(CNN)A top U.S. diplomat has expressed her "great sorrow" after a vehicle in her convoy struck and killed a young boy during an official visit to Cameroon.

Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was traveling to a refugee camp in northern Cameroon when the child was struck Monday, she said hours later in Maroua, capital of the country's Far North Region.

The 8-year-old boy crossed the road without looking near the city of Mokolo, Cameroon's Ministry of Defense said, citing local journalists traveling with the convoy.

The ambassador was not in the car that struck the boy, the ministry said.

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