(CNN)Cameroon’s northwest authorities suspended the movement of all non-emergency vehicles in the area where they say 79 schoolchildren were abducted.
The restrictions began Tuesday in some districts in Bamenda to facilitate search and rescue operations for the abducted children, according to local authorities.
The pupils were taken around midnight Monday along with their teacher, the principal and a driver, from their boarding school, the Presbyterian Secondary School in Bamenda city, authorities told CNN.
