Carnage In Kumba : Shocks Of “Black” Saturday!

At press time the death toll had risen to seven. This is the number of students killed in Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy Fiango in  Kumba, headquarters of Meme Division last Saturday (24 October, 2020), by invading armed men. 
Eye witness accounts say four motorbikes carrying each three persons with guns arrived the school premises at about 10:30 am on 24 October 2020. They descended from the bikes and rushed to the classrooms where lectures were being dispensed. Since Mondays are generally feared as ghost days and schools resumed this year later than usual because of COVID-19, the students were having catch-up classes on Saturday in the school located at Bamilike Street Fiango in Kumba II Subdivision. The gunmen forced the students into  one classroom, opened fire on them killing four on the spot while three later died in hospital.
According to Dr Asonganyi, head of the Kumba District Hospital, some 20 cases of wounded students from Fiango, with six under very critical conditions were received at the hospital. From the number, four were immediately evacuated to the Buea Regional Hospital Annex, Mutengene Baptist Hospital and Limbe Regional Hospital where specialists of such cases are found and the rest are at the Kumba District Hospital responding to treatment.
Informed of the incident, the Senior Divisional Officer (SDO) for Meme Ntou'ou Ndong Chamb...