14 children among up to 22 dead in Cameroon massacre: UN

A massacre in an anglophone locale of Cameroon surrendered over to 22 townspeople dead including 14 youngsters, the UN said Sunday, with a resistance accusing the killings of the military.

Furnished men completed the gore on Friday in the town of Ntumbo in the Northwest area, James Nunan, a neighbourhood authority of helpful coordination office OCHA, told sources.

"Up to 22 regular people were slaughtered, including a pregnant woman and a few children," Nunan stated, including that 14 youngsters - including nine under age five - were among the dead.

Eleven of the youngsters were young ladies, said Nunan, leader of OCHA's office for the Northwest and Southwest districts, which are home toward the West African nation's vast English-talking minority.

Separatists in the locales have been battling the focal government for a long time.

The Movement for the Rebirth of Cameroon, one of the nation's two major resistance groups, gave an announcement saying: "The domineering system (and) the incomparable leader of the security and protection powers are mainly liable for these violations."

A key figure in the dissenter development, legal advisor Agbor Mballa, in a Facebook post additionally blamed "state safeguard powers" of making the killings.

A military authority denied the charges, saying just: "False". No other authority reaction was quickly accessible.

The three-year strife between anglophone powers trying to split away from French-speaking Cameroon has guaranteed more than 3,000 lives and constrained more than 700,000 individuals to escape their homes.

Friday's killings followed races on February 9 that were defaced by savagery in the districts accused both for separatists and security powers.

Furnished separatists kept individuals from casting a ballot, compromising backlashes, while government warriors were an overwhelming nearness.

Separatists seized more than 100 individuals and burnt property in the approach the races, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday.

The legislature has not yet declared the consequences of the decisions or turnout figures.