The Diocesan Director of Communications Elvis Nsaikila said in a statement Cameroonian students and school staff who were kidnapped on Saturday have been freed.
A total of 176 people, mostly students, were kidnapped by unidentified gunmen at Saint Augustin’s College in Kumbo, in the North West region of Cameroon.
It is the largest school kidnapping in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions since separatist unrest began in 2017.
Human Rights Watch has accused rebel groups of being behind the kidnapping but they have not yet commented.
They have said previous abductions were staged by the government to damage their reputation.
The gunmen entered the campus of Saint Augustine’s College Nso on Saturday morning and seized 170 students, two security guards, a teacher and three of his children.
A similar incident took place in November last year in the regional headquarter, Bamenda, where more than 80 people, including the principal, a teacher, a driver and 79 students, were kidnapped from the Presbyterian Secondary School Nkwen.
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