Abidjan Professors Hold Lebanese and French Students Captive

A number of public school professors in the economic capital of Ivory coast, Abidjan protested against the government's failure to pay their salaries, and have therefore confined several Lebanese and French students at private schools to pressure the government into meeting their demands, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

Information said the protesters have beaten up some students and locked them up in lower floors at the schools, NNA added.

Protesters smashed the vehicles of parents who rushed to the school to save their children.

French forces of the French embassy arrived at the scene.