More than 300 schoolchildren and 12 teachers have been abducted by gunmen from St. Mary’s School, a Catholic institution in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state. The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) confirmed the updated figures on Saturday, significantly increasing an earlier tally of 215 schoolchildren.
The revised count was announced after a "verification exercise and a final census was carried out," according to a statement from the Most. Rev. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, chairman of the Niger state chapter of CAN. Rev. Yohanna had visited the school on Friday to assess the situation following the attack.
