Gunmen attack Catholic school in Nigeria, kidnap over 300 children
November 24, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: More than 300 children were abducted from a Catholic school in Nigeria on Friday, November 21.
Fifty of the children later escaped, but authorities were mounting a rescue operation to free 265 children who remained in the kidnappers’ custody, along with 12 teachers.
Responding to the attack—which followed soon after the seizure of another 38 people from a church in the state of Kwara—Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu announced that he would recruit 30,000 new police officers to combat the wave of kidnapping.
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