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More than 300 children abducted from Catholic school in Nigeria
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(FILES) A nun imparts the holy communion to Catholics attending a mass at the Church of the Assumption in Lagos on April 21, 2025. (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP)
A Christian group says the number of students and teachers taken in Nigeria’s second school abduction in a week was 315, revising upwards an earlier figure of 227.
The Christian Association of Nigeria says the new number came “after a verification exercise” following the early Friday mass kidnapping and added that “The total number of victims abducted … is now 303 students and 12 teachers.”
The kidnapping from St. Mary’s school in Niger state in central Nigeria came after gunmen on Monday stormed a secondary school in Kebbi state in northwestern Nigeria, abducting 25 girls.
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