DOUALA, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen killed at least three children and one teacher in an attack on a school in Cameroon's South West region on Wednesday, a local human rights group said. The mayor of the town of Ekondo Titi, Kenneth Nanji, confirmed a deadly attack was carried out on a school there, but was not immediately able to provide the death toll. The Cameroon-based Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa said pupils aged 12, 16 and 17 and a French-language teacher were killed, and several others were wounded. Register now for FREE unlimited access to reuters.com Register"Another senseless, outrageous ... murder of innocent children," the EU Ambassador to Cameroon, Philippe Van Damme, said on Twitter. Wednesday's attack comes just two months after hundreds of schools in the Anglophone South West and North West reopened years after they were forced shut by separatists.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 25, 2021 02:28 UTC