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Gunmen abducted 215 students and 12 teachers from a Catholic school in western Nigeria's Niger state on Friday, the Christian Association of Nigeria reported, following two separate mass kidnapping incidents in the country just days earlier.

The Niger State Police Command said the abductions at St Mary's School in Agwara occurred in the early hours of Friday, November 21, and that military and security forces had been deployed to the community.

Police described St Mary's as a secondary school, which in Nigeria would serve children between the ages of 12 and 17.

The Catholic Diocese of Kontagora said in a statement that one security staffer was "badly shot" during the attack.

The Mirror reported that parents have been told officials are "working with the government and se

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