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The toll in a Catholic school abduction was raised to more than 300 schoolchildren and a dozen teachers seized during an armed attack a day earlier.

The mass kidnapping is the latest in a pattern of school abductions in Nigeria, confronting a deepening security crisis.

Niger state announced it would close all schools indefinitely, declaring an emergency early Christmas holiday for students across the region.

ABUJA, Nigeria — A total of 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers were abducted by gunmen during an attack on St. Mary’s School, a Catholic institution in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state, the Christian Assn. of Nigeria said Saturday, updating an earlier tally of 215 schoolc

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