Fears grow for missing students in Nigeria after school attack

People gather inside the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Nigeria (Abdullatif Yusuf/AP)

Anxiety is growing among the parents of hundreds of students who remain missing three days after gunmen attacked their school in Katsina State in northern Nigeria.

More than 300 students are missing after the attack on the Government Science Secondary School, a boys’ school in Kankara, on Friday night, Katsina governor Aminu Masari said.