France denies kidnapped family freed in Cameroon
- Published: 21 Feb 2013 at 16.43
- Online news: World
France on Thursday denied a claim that seven members of a French family kidnapped this week in northern Cameroon by suspected Islamists had been freed.
The Yaounde house of a French family seized in a kidnapping allegedly carried out by Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, seen on February 21, 2013. France on Thursday denied a claim that seven members of a French family kidnapped this week in northern Cameroon by suspected Islamists had been freed.
The foreign ministry said in a statement that it formally "denied the information that the French hostages had been released".
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