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

The tally was changed “after a verification exercise and a final census was carried out,” according to a statement issued by the Most. Rev. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, chairman of the Niger state chapter of CAN, who visited the school on Friday.

He said 88 other students “were also captured after they tried to escape” during the attack. The students were both male and female and ranged in age from 10 to 18.

The school kidnapping in Niger state’s remote Papiri community happened four days after 25 school children were abducted in similar circumstances in neighboring Kebbi state’s Maga

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