Seventy-nine school pupils abducted by gunmen in Cameroon on Monday have been freed.
The country's communications minister, Issa Bakary Tchiroma, said all the students who had been taken from a school in the city of Bamenda, had been released.
No details were given of the circumstances under which they were set free.
The kidnappings were the first such mass abductions seen in Cameroon and coincide with an upsurge of political tensions in the majority French-speaking country.
The students were enrolled at the Presbyterian Secondary School in Bamenda, one of two areas where surging anglophone separatist militancy has been met with a brutal crackdown by authorities.
Their release comes a day after Cameroon's President Paul Biya was sworn in for a seventh term in office.
President Biya has promised to pursue policies of decentralisation to address "frustrations and aspirations" in English-speaking regions.
