Armed gang members kidnapped pupils and teachers from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, officials said Friday, in the second such incident in less than a week.

The school kidnappings and an attack on a church earlier this week came weeks after US President Donald Trump threatened military action over what he described as the targeted killings of Nigeria's Christians by radical Islamists, a narrative rejected by the Nigerian government.

The Catholic Church in the area said in a statement that "armed attackers invaded" the school between 1:00 am and 3:00 am, abducting "pupils, students, teachers and a security" guard who was shot.

The Niger state government said it had "received with deep sadness the disturbing news of the kidnapping of pupils from St. Mary's School in Agwara local go

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