No one immediately claimed responsibility for the abduction in the English-speaking region where separatists are fighting to form a breakaway state. The separatists have imposed curfews and closed down schools as part of their protest against President Paul Biya's French-speaking government. They were taken to the bush," a military source told Reuters. A government spokesman said it was keeping track of an event but that it could not comment further. Many people have fled Bamenda and other centres to seek refuge in more peaceful Francophone regions.

Source: bd News24 November 05, 2018 12:11 UTC