YAOUNDE (Cameroon), Feb 19: Seven French tourists from one family, including four children, were kidnapped in Cameroon on Tuesday by suspected Muslim militants.

French President Francois Hollande said he was informed that they were seized by a Nigerian “terrorist group that we know well”, without naming it.

“What is most probable is they will be taken to Nigeria,” he told reporters on a visit to Athens, adding that France was doing everything possible to prevent that outcome.

A source close to the French embassy in Yaounde said a group of men, apparently on motorbikes, had captured the seven tourists in the northern village of Dabanga near the Nigeria border after they had visited the Waza nature park.—AFP