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Hundreds of parents in Nigeria are pleading for the rescue of their children abducted from a Catholic school last week

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Police in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State reported that a group of armed bandits invaded a private Catholic school abducting hundreds of schoolchildren early on Friday, amid widespread outrage over violence against Christians in the West African nation.