The number is rising – over 300 kidnapped in Nigeria

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The number is rising – over 300 kidnapped in Nigeria
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The number of people kidnapped after Friday's attack on a school in western Nigeria is being written down. A Christian group in the country puts the number of people abducted at 315.

It was last Friday that armed assailants stormed a Catholic school and abducted children and school staff at gunpoint. According to early reports, the children included 215 students and 12 teachers.

But now that number has been raised to a total of 315 people, according to a Christian organization that compiled the number of missing, according to AFP.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.

As recently as Monday, 25 schoolgirls were abducted by gunmen in a separate attack on another school.

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