About 166 children and a number of teachers who were briefly kidnapped by unknown gunmen on Saturday in Cameroon have been freed.
They were taken from a Catholic school in the town of Kumbo.
School authorities negotiated their release and the children were returned yesterday. It is unclear why they were kidnapped but there have been a number of incidents in the area since 2016 due to ongoing conflict in the mainly English-speaking North-West and South-West Regions, where government forces are battling separatists demanding independence.
The government is led by the French-speaking President Paul Biya, who has been in power since 1982.
