Armed assailants attacked a Catholic boarding school in western Nigeria early Friday, kidnapping several children and staff members, days after 25 schoolgirls were abducted from a neighbouring state and 38 church worshippers were kidnapped in another.

Friday’s attack occurred at St. Mary’s School in Agwara Local Government’s Papiri community, Abubakar Usman, the secretary to the Niger State Government, said in a Facebook statement .

He did not share the number of students and staff kidnapped or who could be responsible for the attack.

Local media broadcaster Arise TV said 52 schoolchildren were abducted, The Associated Press reported. Nigerian authorities have not confirmed the numbers.

Military security forces and tactical units were deployed to the scene early Friday, Niger State P

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