About 100 children kidnapped by a rebel group in Burundi have managed to escape from their captors, one of the teenagers said Saturday.
"There was shooting between the army and the rebels, they told us to head east, and we took advantage of a moment of inattention to escape," Edmond Nsimirimana told AFP.
Nsimirimana is one of between 250 and 300 high school pupils who were abducted Friday from their school in the northeast of the central African country by rebels of the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) -- AFP
