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muriel_volestrangler

(101,311 posts) Mon Nov 5, 2018, 03:36 PM Nov 2018

Cameroon school kidnap: More than 70 pupils seized in Bamenda

Dozens of people, mostly school pupils, have been kidnapped from a boarding school in the west of Cameroon.

At least 78 students and three others, including the principal, were seized early on Monday morning in Bamenda, the capital of the North-West region, a government official has told the BBC.

Regional governor Adolphe Lele L'Afrique blamed separatist militias.
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They also repeat the phrase: "I was taken from school last night by the Amba boys, I don't know where I am."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-46096924

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1. Pupils freed; 3 adults still in captivity

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Wed Nov 7, 2018, 05:28 AM

Nov 2018

Students kidnapped from a boarding school in Cameroon's North-West region have been freed, officials say.

The 79 students and three others were seized early on Sunday in the region's capital, Bamenda.

The school's principal, the driver, and a teacher are still in captivity, the BBC's Mayeni Jones reports.

The government and separatists in the English-speaking region have been accusing each other of being behind the kidnapping.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-46122678

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