Nigeria: Number of children abducted in school attack raised to over 300

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 Association of Nigeria (CAN) said Saturday, updating an earlier tally of 215 schoolchildren.

The tally was changed “after a verification exercise and a final census [were] carried out,” according to a statement issued by the Most. Rev. Bulus Dauwa…