A BRIT missionary, 83, and his assistant have been abducted by a group of armed men in Cameroon, the church group revealed.

Huub Welters and his assistant Henry Kang were brutally captured in Bambui on Tuesday.

The town is located in the country’s separatist conflict-hit anglophone northwest.

According to the Catholic Mill Hill Missionary, Welters and Kang were heading to a project aimed at constructing classrooms for disadvantaged children in the nearby region of Ilung.

In Wednesday’s update on the pair, the Catholic missionary said they have “no idea” where Welter’s is.

The organisation revealed in a statement: “They were abducted by unknown armed men, and as of now, no one knows where they are.

“What weighs heaviest on our hearts is his fragile health.

“He has previously undergone several joint replacement surgeries, a back surgery, and now faces the additional severe mental and emotional distress of being taken hostage by people he intended only to assist.”

NGO African Conscience shared with AFP that it believed the pair had been abducted by separatist fighters.

The NGO added: “The authorities of the Archdiocese are currently working for their release.

“We pray. We plead. We wait.”

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