Kumba, 28 October, 2020 / 11:14 pm (ACI Africa).
Pope Francis has expressed solidarity with the families of seven schoolchildren who were “barbarically killed” as a result of the October 24 attack on their school located within Cameroon’s Kumba Diocese.
“I participate in the suffering of the families of the young students barbarically killed last Saturday in Kumba, in Cameroon,” the Holy Father said Wednesday, October 28 at the end of his weekly General Audience.
He added, “I feel great bewilderment at such a cruel and senseless act, which tore the young innocents from life while they were attending lessons at school.”
Gunmen attacked Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy on October 24 and opened fire on students in a classroom. According to a media report, six children died on the spot while the seventh succumbed to the gunshot injuries on October 25.
In his remarks that he also published on Twitter, the Holy Father prayed to God to enlighten hearts “so that similar gestures may never be repeated again and so that the tormented regions of the Northwest and Southwest of the country may finally find peace!”