Authorities in English-speaking western Cameroon appealed for calm after a policeman killed a schoolgirl in the troubled region and was lynched by an angry mob.
The incident took place in Buea, a hotspot city in a region where anglophone separatists and government forces in the French-majority nation have been locked in bitter four-year-old conflict.
Blaise Chamango, head of a local campaign group called Human Is Right, said a woman driving children to school was ordered by police to stop at a checkpoint.
Pictures purporting to be that of the dead girl, the gendarme and the mob circulated on social media but could not be authenticated.
The Southwest and neighbouring Northwest region are home to English-speakers who comprise around a fifth of Cameroon’s 22 million people.
A decades-long campaign by militants to redress perceived discrimination at the hands of the francophone majority flared into a declaration of independence on October 1st, 2017.
