A video apparently showing seven French hostages kidnapped from
northern Cameroon has been posted online, with a man claiming that a radical
Islamic group from Nigeria holds them.
The
video, posted Monday to YouTube, shows two men, a woman and four children flanked by two armed men wearing camouflage uniforms.
Another speaks in Arabic in front and says that Boko
Haram has taken them hostage over the French military intervention in northern
Mali.
The unidentified man says Boko Haram wants its members freed in
exchange for the hostages. He also threatens the governments of Cameroon and
Nigeria.
The vacationing French family was kidnapped in northern Cameroon
last week. Cameroonian and Nigerian soldiers are searching for them in the
arid, rural border region the two countries share in West Africa.
