Dozens of students have been kidnapped by gunmen from school in Cameroon’s Kumba town in the South-West Region.
The latest abduction involves over twenty students and a teacher in the restive English-speaking part of Cameroon.
Tuesday’s abduction is coming weeks after some 81 students in the restive northwest region were also kidnapped by gunmen.
Those students were released from captivity days ago by the group called the Amba boys. There is no clarity on the group behind the latest kidnapping.
A local journalist Mimi Mefo reports on her portal that “the incident occurred at about midday.
Residents around the Anglican neighborhood where the school is located told us that, about ten gunmen stormed the school compound on motorbikes.
The residents said the gunmen got to the school after jumping over the school fence. The gunmen reportedly fired shots in the air to scare away the population that attended to intervene, we gathered.”
Agitations continue to grow in Anglophone Cameroon where separatists are fighting for independence. That has come with a lot of violence.
These separatists complain about marginalization and discrimination from the majority French-speaking side of Cameroon.
Source: Africafeeds.com
