Hundreds of school children and a dozen teachers were abducted when armed men reportedly stormed Saint Mary's Catholic School in Nigeria's Papiri.<br /><br />Footage shows empty classrooms littered with overturned textbooks, abandoned shoes, and scattered belongings following the attack.<br /><br />"We all thought the footsteps we heard were from cows, until our sister peeped outside and saw that it was actually a large group of children," security guard Abdul-Hamid Idris recalled.<br /><br />"We could clearly see them being beaten whenever they tried to sit or run," he continued.<br /><br />Parents said the assault has devastated a community that already struggles with insecurity, adding that "Taking a child to the city is not easy [...] it would be the end of the education for some children."<br /><br />"Most of the parents are not likely to take their children again back to that school," he commented.<br /><br />According to local reports, the attack unfolded early Friday in the remote Papiri community, becoming one of the worst cases of abductions since the 2014 Chibok town abduction.<br /><br />The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) also reported that 50 abducted pupils from a Catholic school in Niger state have escaped and been reunited with their families.<br /><br />The incident came just days after gunmen abducted 25 schoolgirls from a secondary school in nearby Kebbi state. No group has claimed responsibility for either attack at the time of publication.<br /><br />Follow us on:<br />WhatsApp cutt.ly/WhatsAppCFM<br />https://twitter.com/capitalfmkenya/<br />https://www.facebook.com/capitalfmkenya<br />https://www.instagram.com/capitalfmkenya<br /><br />Subscribe to Capital FM News for More: https://goo.gl/um4AGk<br /><br />98.4 Capital FM<br />93.0 Western Kenya<br />98.5 Nakuru and Nyeri<br />104.5 Malindi<br />102.7 Garissa<br />103.9 Meru<br />106.5 Kitui<br />104.9 Voi<br /><br />#CapitalFmKenya
