He says his son had just enrolled in Form One in Secondary School only two weeks before the incident. His son, Victory Camibon Ngameni, was among the three students who died instantly when Mother Francisca College Fiango Kumba was attacked by gunmen.

Pastor Tamungwa’s wife went through surgery just last month, the second in about two years, and is at home trying to recover. The pastor says he was home trying to do laundry when news came that his son had been killed.

“I went to the scene. I saw Victory dead. He was among the three who died on the spot,” said Tamungwa.

Cameroonian artist Amstrong Asopo alias FlyHabit said the deceased Victory was his cousin’s son. In deep consternation and grief, he posted this heart-wrecking eulogy on Facebook:

“My heart bleeds. They took the life of my nephew in Kumba. A child who was just trying to get his education! All my little nephew wanted to become was an engineer and he was shot in a classroom trying to build his dream.

“It took her (my cousin) over 10 years of struggle to conceive a child! Labeled barren and all sorts of derogatory attributes but she kept trying until she received her blessing of a bouncing baby boy – Victory. Now 10 years later ‘YOU’ come and take the life of her boy, her blessing, her reason to believe again – the child that earned her the title of a mother, who does that?

“Who kills innocent school children? Who sits and watches people kill children? The boy was only 10 but he was a 20-year memory.  He was his father’s pride to his family and a child with a bright future - and they shot him, they shot all those innocent kids for what?!”

Cameroon-Info.Net recalls that around noon on Saturday, gunmen attacked Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy Fiango, Kumba. State authorities say they opened fire on no fewer than 19 students, killed at least six, and badly wounded about 13 others.

In the classroom where the Form One students were killed lies the brain of one of the victims. It is believed she was shot on the head at close range. The floor is all covered with coagulated blood just like the walls and blackboard are stained with blood.

“I saw some of their shoes on the floor. One left behind a red Mickey Mouse jacket. Then, at the center of the class, I saw a water bottle and a food container standing lonely on a desk,” said journalist Blaise Eyong. “Most of the victims were girls. Authorities told me the students were between the ages of 12 and 14. This was their first year in secondary school and they had only studied for two weeks.”

The Divisional Officer for Kumba I, Ali Anougu, the Senior Divisional Officer for Meme Division, Chamberlain Ntou’ou Ndong, and the Minister of Communication, Emmanuel Rene Sadi blame armed separatists for the attack.

The students killed include 11-year-old Victory Camibon Ngameni, 12-year-old Anamgim Jenifer, 12-year-old Ngemone Princess, Che Telma Nchangnwi, 9-year-old Zakame Rema, Chema Syndi, and 12-year-old Renny Ngwane who died in hospital Sunday morning.

According to one of the children who cheated death in the attack, they were in class attending French lessons when they heard three gunshots outside and they all went on the ground, and the French teacher fled for his life – probably knowing he was the target. It is only after the gunmen had left that they discovered three children had died on the spot, the child is quoted as saying.