Nigeria, Nov. 22 -- The total abducted students of the St. Mary's Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools, Papiri, now 303, the Catholic Diocese of Kontagora has declared.

Discover more newspaper Newspaper OPPO This was confirmed after parents were said to have gone to school to evacuate their children but couldn't find them after the attack.

It would be recalled the armed bandits had invaded the school in the wee hours of Friday, kidnapping students and staff.

In an update on Saturday morning, Most. Rev. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna of the Catholic Bishop of Kontagora Diocese said a total of 303 students are now missing, making total of the abducted students and teachers to be 315 altogether.

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