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As attackers opened fire on worshippers inside a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria, other gunmen waited outside to kill those who tried to flee, ...

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Gunmen attacked a Catholic church in southwest Nigeria during mass on Sunday, killing at least 50 people including women and children, according to a ...

A doctor at a hospital in Owo told Reuters that at least 50 bodies had been brought into two hospitals in the town from the attack. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

ABUJA, Nigeria — As attackers opened fire on worshippers inside a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria, other gunmen waited outside to kill those who ...

Hospital workers struggled to treat scores of wounded following the attack. “I saw a lot of dead bodies — both young and old, even children,” he said. Worshippers were attending Pentecost Sunday Mass when gunfire erupted at the St. Francis Catholic Church in Ondo state.

By Temilade Adelaja and Seun Sanni OWO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Victims of an attack on a Catholic church in Nigeria suffered lacerations, bullet wounds and ...

Owo is located in Ondo State in southwest Nigeria, a part of the country that does not usually experience violent conflict over religion. "Immediately they entered and started firing everywhere, so many people," said Alex Michael, who was shot in the leg while protecting his children by hiding them under chairs. He said one woman had lost both legs. An Owo resident said some local people were blaming the church massacre on members of the Hausa-Fulani ethnic group, who are predominantly Muslim and live mostly in northern Nigeria, with communities in other regions. Around him were other survivors, many with limbs wrapped in bloodstained bandages. One man writhed and moaned on his bed, while a woman wept as she embraced her brother.

A woman who lost her parents in the southwestern Nigerian city of Owo said they regularly attended the Catholic church where a mass shooting killed dozens ...

There was no doubt in my mind that they had witnessed the attack at the very least, but I didn't know that they would be so affected," Ajanaku said, adding that the church can hold about 500 people when full. Ajanaku said her parents were always together, even in death. I saw the bodies of many kids." He later said my dad didn't make it. The person picked up and said my dad had been injured and had been taken to the hospital, but he didn't know anything about my mum's whereabouts. "Somebody had my dad's phone.

Responding to the killing of more than 20 worshippers, including women and children, at the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo on Sunday, Osai Ojigho, ...

“Victims and their families have a right to know the truth about this shooting and to be provided with justice and reparations. On 5 June 2022, gunmen entered the St. Francis Church in southwest Nigeria at around noon as Sunday mass was ending. “This brutal attack shows a complete disregard for the right to life.

Des dizaines de fidèles ont été tués le 5 juin durant une messe de Pentecôte dans une église du sud-ouest du Nigeria. Si l'attaque n'a pas encore été ...

Et tout porte à croire que ce n’est pas demain la veille que ce géant aux pieds d’argile réussira à venir à bout du terrorisme. Pour l’heure on ne connaît pas l’identité du groupe qui a commis l’hécatombe. Mais, à moins qu’un nouveau mouvement ne soit né dans ce laps de temps, cette tuerie à l’aveuglette est soit l’œuvre de Boko Haram soit celle d’ISWAP [acronyme anglais de l’État islamique en Afrique de l’Ouest]. Et le moins que l’on puisse dire, c’est que cette ignominie constitue un coup dur pour le président Muhammadu Buhari dont le mandat s’achève en 2023. Le Nigeria vient de subir l’une de ses pires attaques terroristes depuis la mort, en mai 2021, d’Abubakar Shekau, leader de la secte islamiste Boko Haram. En effet, des terroristes ont ouvert le feu, le 5 juin, sur des fidèles à l’église catholique Saint Francis de la ville d’Owo, dans l’État d’Ondo situé dans le Sud-Ouest du Nigeria. Ils auraient également fait exploser des bombes tuant au moins une cinquantaine de personnes [le bilan n’a pas encore été établi avec certitude].

L'attaque par des hommes armés dimanche d'une église catholique durant la messe a fait au moins 21 morts, dont des enfants dans le sud-ouest du Nigeria, ...

Le président Muhammadu Buhari, un ancien général de l’armée, termine son deuxième mandat en février 2023, comme prévu par la constitution. «Alors que les détails de l’incident sont en train d’être clarifiés, le Pape François prie pour les victimes et pour le pays, douloureusement affectés lors d’un moment de célébration, et les confie au Seigneur, afin qu’il envoie son Esprit pour les consoler», a-t-il ajouté. Cette attaque, dénoncée comme un «meurtre odieux de fidèles» par le président Muhammadu Buhari et qui n’a pas été revendiquée, a également fait plusieurs blessés, selon les autorités.

Gunmen went into a Catholic church in Owo, a town in Ondo state, southwest Nigeria, during a Pentecost day Mass on June 5 and killed at least 50 people, ...

That leaves the field open to his aspiring successors to stake a claim to being able to console grieving Nigerians in times of pain. Bola Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos state who was very influential in enthroning Buhari and Osinbajo in 2015 and 2019, is running too and has said it is his turn to lead Nigeria. Buhari wants to pick his successor and has plainly told governors of the 22 (of Nigeria’s 36) states where APC reigns to back his choice.

Des dizaines de personnes ont été tuées par des hommes armés dans une église catholique au Nigeria durant la messe de la Pentecôte ce dimanche.

L’armée nigériane est en revanche confrontée à de nombreux foyers d’insécurité dans le reste du pays. L’attaque survient à la veille du lancement par l’APC, le parti au pouvoir, de ses primaires en vue de l’élection présidentielle de 2023 pour guigner la succession de Muhammadu Buhari, un ancien commandant de l’armée qui se retirera après deux mandats. Cette attaque, dénoncée comme un «meurtre odieux de fidèles» par le président Muhammadu Buhari, n’a pas été revendiquée dans l’immédiat.

Des hommes armés ont attaqué dimanche 5 juin une église catholique dans l'État d'Ondo, dans le sud-ouest du Nigeria, tuant 21 fidèles, selon un premier ...

Or, souligne le chercheur, « de fortes tensions altèrent les relations au sein du parti ». Ce climat exacerbé pourrait être propice à une escalade de la violence. D’après le premier bilan officiel donné par les autorités locales, 21 personnes, dont des enfants, ont été tuées et une quarantaine d’autres blessées, dans l’Église Saint-Francis à Owo, dans l’État d’Ondo, au sud-ouest du pays. Lourdement armés, ces derniers ont d’abord fait détonner de la dynamite durant l’office du matin, avant d’ouvrir le feu sur l’assemblée des fidèles réunis pour la messe.

Survivors of an attack by unknown assailants on a Catholic church in Nigeria lay weeping and writhing in pain at a local hospital.

Owo is located in Ondo State in southwest Nigeria, a part of the country that does not usually experience violent conflict over religion. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com One man writhed and moaned on his bed while a woman wept as she embraced her brother. "Immediately they entered and started firing everywhere, so many people," said Alex Michael, who was shot in the leg while protecting his children by hiding them under chairs. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

L'attaque par des hommes armés dimanche d'une église catholique durant la messe a fait au moins 21 morts et une quarantaine de blessés, dont des enfants, ...

L’armée nigériane est confrontée à de nombreux foyers d’insécurité dans le reste du pays. Des restes humains jonchaient encore le sol. « Le Nigeria a le devoir de protéger le droit à la vie de sa population en toutes circonstances », a accusé l’ONG. Sur Twitter par exemple, la superstar de la musique nigériane Burna Boy a présenté lundi matin « ses sincères condoléances à tous ceux qui ont perdu des amis ou des proches dans des actes terroristes ces derniers mois à travers le pays ». Des témoins et survivants de la tuerie ont raconté à l’AFP la panique qui s’est emparée des fidèles au moment où une explosion s’est produite dans l’église, suivie par des coups de feu. (Lagos) L’attaque par des hommes armés dimanche d’une église catholique durant la messe a fait au moins 21 morts et une quarantaine de blessés, dont des enfants, dans le sud-ouest du Nigeria, suscitant l’effroi dans le pays le plus peuplé d’Afrique.

DAKAR, Senegal — The first shots rang out as Mass was drawing to a close at the small church in the Nigerian town of Owo.

“In saying this is not Boko Haram, we can’t say this does not have a religious connotation.” Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari vowed to tackle the security crisis when he was elected in 2015, but has struggled to put an end to the violence. Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the region and millions displaced. Most violence in Nigeria has taken place in the northeast, where Boko Haram has waged an Islamist insurgency for more than a decade, regularly attacking churches and kidnapping schoolchildren. Graphic videos from the scene show bloodied bodies on the floor, including women and children. “I managed to escape, and I didn’t see their faces.

Workers cleared the pools of blood and pieces of broken pews at the Saint Francis Catholic church in south-west Nigeria on Monday, as the local community ...

The restrictions were adopted after an increase in kidnappings in the state and reports of attacks and cattle encroachments on private farms. About 3,000 people were killed by armed groups in Nigeria in the first three months of 2022, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. Ondo state governor Arakunrin Akeredolu said on Monday that flags in the state would be flown at half-mast for a week. A lot of bodies right there in the church, blood-soaked bodies,” he told local broadcaster, AIT television. The Catholic bishop of Ondo state, Jude Ayodeji Arogundade, also rushed to the church after the attack. “I saw a lot of dead bodies – both young and old, even children,” he said.