YAOUNDE, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Over 30 people, likely including students from neighbouring Chad, have been kidnapped by suspected bandits in northern Cameroon, the mayor of the local town of Touboro said on Monday. Cameroon is facing multiple security crises including an insurgency by Islamist group Boko Haram in its Far North region, and a separatist conflict in its English-speaking west. He did not know the identity of the victims but said it was probable that Chadian students were among them. Students from Chad take the road through Touboro to get to the city of Ngaoundere, where there is a university. A local Chadian news site, Toumaï Web Médias, cited unidentified sources as saying that 25 Chadian students were kidnapped on their way to Ngaoundere on Sunday, and that six had been released.
