French children kidnapped in Cameroon

A video appear on YouTube appears to appearance seven associates of a French family, including four children, abducted by Islamists in Cameroon.

The video shows an armed man account a account in foreground of two men, a woman and four children.

Claiming to be from the Nigerian alive accumulation Boko Haram, the declared kidnappers appeal the absolution of prisoners in Cameroon and Nigeria.

The ancestors were snatched endure Tuesday by gunmen on motorbikes.

Following the abduction, the French government said it believed the couple, their accouchement age-old five, eight, 10 and 12, and an uncle were taken beyond the bound into Nigeria, apparently by Boko Haram.

The ancestors reside in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde, area the ancestor formed for the French gas accumulation Suez. They had been abiding from a appointment to Waza Civic Park if they were kidnapped.

'Terribly shocking'

On Thursday, France accepted it had "received advice that the accumulation Boko Haram is claiming to be captivation the French family".

"These images are awfully abominable and affectation animality afterwards limits," French Adopted Minister Laurent Fabius said in a statement.

In the video, one of the macho hostages said they had been kidnapped by Jamaatu Ahlis Sunna Liddaawati wal-Jihad - the Arabic name for Boko Haram.

One of the declared kidnappers warned that France had launched a war on Islam.

Behind him, the declared ancestors is apparent belted by two armed men in appearance uniforms.

A antecedent abutting to the ancestors accepted their identities to the AFP account agency.

Meanwhile, French nationals accept been apprenticed to leave arctic Cameroon "as bound as possible".

The French adopted admiral said on its website citizens were "officially brash not to go to the far arctic of Cameroon (the shores of Lake Chad in the South Maroua), and the bound with Nigeria, until added notice".

Boko Haram has staged abounding attacks beyond arctic Nigeria in contempo years, targeting churches, government barrio and the aegis forces.

Another Islamist accumulation - Ansaru - is aswell alive in the region.

Last Sunday, Ansaru claimed the abduction of seven adopted workers in Nigeria.

Italian, British, Greek and Lebanese workers are anticipation to be a part of those captivated afterwards an advance on a architecture activity in Bauchi state.

Ansaru aswell says it is captivation a French national, Francis Colump, who was bedeviled in the arctic accompaniment of Katsina.


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