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| Cameroon kidnap: Bamenda students freed | Cameroon kidnap: Bamenda students freed |
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| Students kidnapped from a boarding school in Cameroon's North-West region have been freed, officials say. | Students kidnapped from a boarding school in Cameroon's North-West region have been freed, officials say. |
| The 79 students and three others were seized early on Monday morning in the region's capital, Bamenda. | The 79 students and three others were seized early on Monday morning in the region's capital, Bamenda. |
| The school's principal, the driver, and a teacher are still in captivity, the BBC's Mayeni Jones reports. | The school's principal, the driver, and a teacher are still in captivity, the BBC's Mayeni Jones reports. |
| The government and separatists in the English-speaking region have been accusing each other of being behind the kidnapping. | The government and separatists in the English-speaking region have been accusing each other of being behind the kidnapping. |
| A video purportedly showing some of the kidnapped students from Bamenda's Presbyterian Secondary School has been shared online, sparking outrage. | |
| An Anglophone separatist movement has been operating in the North-West and South-West regions over the past year. | An Anglophone separatist movement has been operating in the North-West and South-West regions over the past year. |
| It is unclear how the students were freed. | |
| What do we know? | |
| Cameroon's army launched a massive search operation on Tuesday to track the hostages. | |
| Communication Minister Issa Bakary Tchiroma told AFP news agency that "all 79 students have been released," but did not give the details of the circumstances. | |
| A priest who was conducting negotiations with the captors confirmed the release but said the school's principal, driver and a teacher were held back, Reuters news agency reports. |