Cameroon’s security forces have rescued kidnapped students and one teacher after a raid on a camp of separatist fighters in the South-West region.
The group of nine, not 20 as first reported, was taken from a school in the city of Kumba, on Tuesday.
Four attackers were shot dead in the operation but one was captured, a senior official told the BBC.
Cameroon’s North-West and South-West regions have been hit by a separatist rebellion since last year.
Armed groups in the two English-speaking regions have called on local residents to boycott schools until a referendum on independence is held.
Protests against marginalisation by the country’s French-speaking majority have been met with a crackdown.
They want to create an independent state called Ambazonia.
Gunmen entered the Lords Bilingual School on Tuesday afternoon causing panic.
Many of the students jumped over the school fence walls to avoid being taken.
In the confusion, earlier reports had suggested that a higher number of students had been taken, journalist Peter Tah, who has been covering the conflict in the region, says.
