Twelve killed in Nigeria church shooting
Several worshippers with gunshot wounds were receiving diagnosis during a hospital. PHOTO: AFP
WARRI: Gunmen stormed a Catholic church in a city in southeast Nigeria early Sunday, murdering 12 worshippers, sanatorium sources and witnesses said.
The conflict took place during around 6am during St. Philip’s church in Ozubulu, nearby a city of Onitsha, witnesses said.
“So far, 12 persons have been reliable passed and deposited in a mortuary here while several persons are receiving medical attention,” a staff workman during Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital in Nnewi, where a victims were admitted, told AFP.
Several worshippers with gunshot wounds were receiving diagnosis during a hospital, a source said.
Witnesses pronounced 5 gunmen in masks stormed a church and non-stop glow on worshippers. They feared that adult to 20 people might have died.
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In contrast, Anambra State Police Commissioner Garba Umar pronounced a assailant was a sole gunman, who “went on a sharpened spree, murdering and wounding” worshippers.
Witness Chukwuma Emeka pronounced he had only stepped out of a church to widen his legs “when we listened gunshots and screaming and people using inside.”
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“When a disharmony subsided we went inside, we saw my associate church members passed in a pool of their possess blood and many others were screaming in pain.”
Security agents were pronounced to have cordoned off a church.
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