Authorities say at least 78 children and their principal were kidnapped from a school by armed men in northwest Cameroon late Sunday night.
The children were taken from a Presbyterian school near the city of Bamenda, which is at the center of an Anglophone separatist movement.
On social media, a video purporting to show some of the students was released by a group of separatists called “Amba boys,” after Ambazonia, the name they have given the independent, Anglophone state they hope to establish, according to The Associated Press. The video reportedly shows some of the boys being forced to state their names and those of their parents.
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