A total of 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers were abducted by gunmen during an attack on a Catholic school in Nigeria, updating an earlier tally of 215 schoolchildren. Black Friday Offers

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The attack occurred at St Mary's School in the north-central state of Niger, the Christian Association of Nigeria says.

The tally was changed "after a verification exercise and a final census was carried out", according to a statement from the Most Rev Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, chairman of the Niger state chapter of the association, who visited the school on

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