Fongo Tongo (Cameroon): Six school children - five boys and one girl - were kidnapped here on Friday while they were helping their parents in farming, according to a local government official.

"The children were kidnapped as they were helping their parents in farming. We have no idea where they are since their abduction. The kidnappers initially asked for a ransom but did not contact the family again when they realized they could not pay," Xinhua quoted a senior government official, Amiya Balise Ndongana, as saying.