⁍ A 12-year-old girl died on Sunday from wounds sustained when gunmen stormed a school in the South West Region of Cameroon.

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⁍ The attack on the school, in the region where separatist insurgents have been battling government forces since 2017, has drawn widespread condemnation.

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⁍ No one has claimed responsibility for the attack in the town of Kumba.

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– The death toll in Saturday’s attack on a school in Cameroon has risen to seven, Reuters reports. A 12-year-old girl died Sunday from her injuries. Twelve other children were injured in the attack on Kumba Secondary School, in the South West region of the country, where separatists have been fighting the government for more than two years. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place as students were leaving the school for the day. The conflict between the government and separatists began in 2016 when people in the English-speaking North West and South West regions complained that the dominant French-speaking majority was marginalizing them. More than 3,000 people have died since. “I blame the government for everything that is happening,” says the father of the 12-year-old who died Sunday. “If the Cameroon government would acknowledge that it cannot win a civil war, it would act differently to avoid the escalation of a conflict that has so far displaced over half a million people.”