Cameroon: the Worst Atrocity against Defenseless Children

  October 25, 2020   News ID 348
Cameroon: the Worst Atrocity against Defenseless Children
Eight students at a school at Cameroon's southwest region are killed by radical extremists.

Kumba, SAEDNEWS, Oct. 25: Arriving on motorbikes and in civilian clothes, the men attacked the Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy in the city of Kumba, in the country’s Southwest Region, at around midday on Saturday.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, described by the UN as “the worst atrocity” since the resumption of the school year earlier this month. It was not clear if the attack was linked to a continuing struggle between government forces and armed groups in the English-speaking west seeking to form a breakaway state.

“At least eight children were killed as a result of gunshots and attack with machetes. Another twelve were wounded and taken to local hospitals,” the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement (Source: AlJazeera).


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