Eighty students were kidnapped in Cameroon

yaounde - An estimated 80 students from a secondary school in the west of Cameroon have been kidnapped. The action has been claimed by armed separatists from the English-speaking minority in the African country.

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.