ABUJA, Nigeria — Gunmen attacked a Catholic boarding school in a western region of Nigeria and abducted schoolchildren and staff on Friday, the latest in a spate of abductions in Africa’s most populous country just days after 25 schoolgirls were abducted in a neighboring state.

The attack and abductions took place at St. Mary’s School, a Catholic institution in the Agwara local government’s Papiri community, said Abubakar Usman, the secretary to the Niger state government. He disclosed neither the number of students and staff abducted nor who might be responsible for the attack.

Local media broadcaster Arise TV said 52 schoolchildren were abducted.

‘The attackers are still moving’

The Niger State Police Command said the abductions took place in the early hours and that military and sec

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