⁍ Gunmen killed five children and badly wounded about nine others when they opened fire in a school in Cameroon’s Southwest region.
⁍ The officials blamed the attack on secessionist insurgents who are seeking to form a breakaway state in Cameroon’s English-speaking west.
⁍ Last year, officials blamed separatists for kidnapping dozens of schoolchildren, charges the separatists denied.
– Gunmen in Cameroon opened fire in a school in the southwest city of Kumba on Saturday, killing five children and wounding about nine others, officials tell Reuters. “They attacked around noon. They found the children in class and they opened fire on them,” a Kumba sub-prefect says. “Nine others have been seriously wounded and sent to hospital.” The official blamed separatists, who are seeking to form a breakaway state in the country’s English-speaking west, though Reuters is unable to confirm that. separatists have imposed curfews and closed schools as part of their protest against President Paul Biya’s French-speaking government and its perceived marginalization of the English-speaking minority. Last year, officials blamed separatists for kidnapping dozens of schoolchildren, charges the separatists denied.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cameroon-security/five-children-killed-in-attack-on-cameroonian-school-say-officials-idUSKBN2790IR