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14 children among up to 22 dead in Cameroon massacre: UN
People look at the building of Cameroon's Parliament in Yaounde. Separatists in the regions have been fighting the central government for three years. PHOTO | FILE | AFP
What you need to know:
- Armed men carried out the bloodshed on Friday in the village of Ntumbo in the Northwest region.
- Eleven of the children were girls, said Nunan, head of OCHA's office for the Northwest and Southwest regions, which are home to the West African country's large English-speaking minority.
A massacre in an anglophone region of Cameroon left up to 22 villagers dead including 14 children, the UN said Sunday, with an opposition party blaming the killings on the army.
Armed men carried out the bloodshed on Friday in the village of Ntumbo in the Northwest region, James Nunan, a local official of humanitarian coordination agency OCHA, told AFP.
