At Least 50 Killed In Attack On Nigerian Catholic Church

HORROR: At Least 50 People Killed in “Satanic Attack” on Nigerian Catholic Church in Bloody Massacre

Cristina Laila 

More than 50 people were brutally murdered in an attack on a Nigerian Catholic church on Sunday.

Graphic video of the bloody aftermath of the massacre was posted to social media.Gunmen, armed with explosives and firearms, opened fire on worshippers at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State on Sunday morning.

The terrorists also took the priest hostage and his whereabouts are currently unknown.

No terror group has claimed responsibility for the massacre as of Sunday evening. 

Ondo state governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu called the attack “vile and satanic.”

The Guardian reported:

Gunmen launched an assault on a Catholic church in Ondo state in Nigeria during mass on Sunday, killing more than 50 people in a “satanic attack”, local officials and volunteers said.

The attackers targeted the St Francis Xavier Catholic Church in the town of Owo as the worshippers gathered on Pentecost Sunday, according to local officials. They gunned down parishioners and detonated an explosive device, local media reported.