Two of the three staff members abducted are still being held, according to Fonki Samuel Forba, moderator of Cameroon’s
Presbyterian Church.
He said the schoolchildren, who were kidnapped on Sunday night from a church school, had been left at a church near Bamenda, the North West Region’s capital.
Mr Forba said the students looked tired and appeared to have suffered during their captivity.
He pleaded with the kidnappers to free the staff still being held, and has asked parents and guardians to take their children home.
The spokesman added that the Presbyterian boarding school with 700 students is being closed because of the security situation.
He said: “It is unfortunate we have to close the school and send home 700 children.
“Their security is not assured by the state and armed groups constantly attack and kidnap them.”
Mr Forba added that the school had previously had some students kidnapped, a situation which was resolved when the church paid a ransom of 2.5 million francs (about £3,000) to the armed gang.
“We can no longer continue,” he said.
Cameroon’s north-west and south-west areas are beset by instability caused by English-speaking separatists.
Fighting between the military and separatists increased after the government clamped down on peaceful demonstrations by English-speaking teachers and lawyers protesting…
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