Eighty students were kidnapped in Cameroon

An estimated 80 students from a secondary school in the west of Cameroon have been kidnapped.

The director and two employees of the school were also kidnapped. The governor of the Nord-Ouest province, Adolphe Lele L'Afrique, confirmed the incident. The kidnappers did not demand a ransom, but the closure of the school of the abducted children, which lies in the northwestern city of Bamenda.