As of November 27, 2025, 265 individuals, including students and staff from St. Mary's Catholic School in Papiri, Niger State, Nigeria, remain in captivity. Gunmen abducted a total of 315 people from the school on November 21, but 50 have since escaped and reunited with their families. Armed bandits stormed St. Mary's Catholic Primary and Secondary School in the early hours of Friday, November 21, in one of Nigeria's worst mass abductions in recent memory.
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