(MENAFN) School authorities declared that one hundred and 70 students in a troubled English-speaking region of Cameroon were freed Sunday, two days after their kidnap by armed men.
Elvis Nsaikila, Kumbo diocesan director of communications confirmed: "They took away 170 students, two college security guards, one teacher and three of his kids. The abductees were released sometime in the afternoon of Sunday 17 February 2019."
The kidnapped students and their teacher were from St. Augustine's College, a Catholic secondary school in Kumbo, a town in Northwest, one of the two unrest English-speaking regions of Cameroon.
Nsaikila added: "School authorities have requested parents and guardians to come and take their children back home as soon as possible. The school has closed down."
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