An armed group has abducted 89 boys in South Sudan, the UN children's agency says.
UNICEF said in a statement on Saturday the boys, some as young as 13, were abducted near Malakal, the capital of Upper Nile state.
It said a UNICEF education team reported the children were taken while doing exams in the town of Wau Shilluk.
Citing witnesses, the statement added that armed men surrounded the community and searched house by house, forcibly taking boys older than 12.
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It is not clear which group carried out the abductions.
Watchdog groups have persistently accused South Sudan's warring factions of actively recruiting and using child soldiers.
