Eight boys who were taken by suspected separatists from a school in the troubled Anglophone north-west region of Cameroon have been released, officials say.
Abdoullahi Aliou, a person who is in charge of the area, said that a group of armed men attacked the school in Esu on Tuesday. They hurt the students and then took them away.
Two rooms where classes are held and the main office of the principal were set on fire during the attack. Some people who work at the school, like the assistant principal, were also taken by force.
Some students got hurt and are getting treatment at the hospital.
“MrAliou said that the defense and security forces rescued the eight kidnapped students. He didn’t say where the deputy principal and other school officials are. ”
For more than six years, separatists have stopped and made sure that children in English-speaking areas of Cameroon don’t go to school. The separatists believe that schools are controlled by the French-speaking majority.
The separatists have attacked the students and teachers who do not follow their rules.
No one has said they did the attack on Tuesday.
The UN says that over 700,000 kids can’t go to school because many schools had to close due to the conflict that started in 2017.
Around 6,000 people have died and hundreds of thousands have been forced to leave their homes because of the fighting, according to the International Crisis Group.
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Abducted and “tortured” students rescued by army of Cameroon
