{"id":304932,"date":"2025-11-21T10:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T10:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304932\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T10:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T10:03:07","slug":"pupils-abducted-from-nigerian-catholic-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304932\/","title":{"rendered":"Pupils abducted from Nigerian Catholic school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">An unknown number of pupils have been abducted by armed men from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, marking the second school kidnapping in less than a week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The latest attack targeted St Mary&#8217;s School in Papiri, Niger state, where authorities had already ordered the temporary closure of all boarding schools due to rising security threats. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;The exact number of abducted pupils is yet to be confirmed as security agencies continue to assess the situation,&#8221; Niger state authorities said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Nigeria has faced a renewed wave of attacks by armed groups in recent days, including the kidnapping on Monday of 25 schoolgirls from a boarding school in nearby Kebbi state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unknown number of pupils have been abducted by armed men from a Catholic school in central Nigeria,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-304932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}