Cameroon's foreign ministry says unidentified men who kidnapped seven French tourists in northern Cameroon have taken them into neighboring Nigeria.
“The kidnappers have gone across the border into Nigeria with their hostages,” said the ministry in a statement released on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, a source close to the French embassy said that gunmen kidnapped seven French tourists in northern Cameroon near the border with Nigeria.
“Seven French tourists were captured today by men, apparently on motorbikes, in the Cameroonian locality of Dadanga on the frontier with Nigeria,” the source said.
According to the source, the tourists including three adults and four children, were “returning from the Waza natural park,” located in the Far North Region.
Following the incident, France urged its citizens “to leave the area as quickly as possible.”
France’s President Francois Hollande also issued a statement saying that “This is the first time that children have been taken hostage in this manner…We are doing everything with the help of authorities in Cameroon and Nigeria to find our compatriots.”
While hostage taking often takes place off the Cameroonian coast, it is the first time that tourists from Western countries have been abducted in Cameroon.
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