Nigeria raises number of missing students after school raid to 39

Nine more students than originally thought are missing after gunmen stormed college in Kaduna, local official says.

Nine more students than originally thought are missing after gunmen stormed a forestry college in northwest Nigeria earlier this week, a government official in Nigeria’s Kaduna state said. The revision on Saturday brings the total number of missing students to 39 following Thursday’s night-time raid on the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, the fourth mass school abduction in northern Nigeria since December. Samuel Aruwan, Kaduna state’s security commissioner, said the missing comprised of 23 females and 16 males.