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315 students and teachers abducted in latest Nigerian school kidnapping

Empty bunk beds and scattered belongings inside a student dormitory at St Mary's Catholic School in Papiri, Agwarra local government, Niger state. [AFP]

A Christian group on Saturday said 315 students and teachers were seized a day earlier in Nigeria's second mass school abduction in a week, as security fears mounted in Africa's most populous nation.

The early Friday raid on St Mary's co-education school in Niger state in central Nigeria came after gunmen on Monday stormed a secondary school in neighbouring Kebbi state, abducting 25 girls.

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