MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: More than 300 children and staff are thought to have been abducted from a Catholic school in Nigeria this week, one of the worst mass kidnappings ever recorded there. The Christian Association of Nigeria said on Saturday it had raised its estimate of those taken from St. Mary’s School in Niger state on Friday to 315, up from an earlier estimate of 227, following a “verification exercise.” “This now makes it 303 students (and) ...

Security forces have launched operations to assess the situation and locate the missing pupils.

Attack comes just days after armed men stormed a secondary school in northwestern Nigeria, kidnapping 25 schoolgirls.

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