Kidnappers free last of 80 Cameroon schoolboys


  • World
  • Tuesday, 13 Nov 2018

FILE PHOTO: Parents await for news of their children at a school where 79 pupils were kidnapped in Bamenda, Cameroon November 6, 2018. REUTERS/Blaise Eyong

DOUALA (Reuters) - Kidnappers freed on Monday the last of about 80 schoolboys taken hostage last week in a raid on a school in west Cameroon, said a church minister who negotiated their release and a regional official.

Armed men seized the children, their principal and other adults in Bamenda, a centre of the country's troubled English-speaking region where separatists are fighting to form a breakaway republic called Ambazonia.

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