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Owo massacre: Police reveal how gunmen invaded Ondo church, killed worshipers

The Police High Command on Monday made public the preliminary findings on the brutal murder of innocent Nigerians by gunmen in an attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owaluwa in Owo, Ondo State on Sunday during which several lives were lost and several other sustained various degree of injuries.

This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi.

According to the statement, “the gunmen, from preliminary investigations, invaded the church with arms and materials suspected to be explosives.

“Police investigators who were part of the First Responders deployed to the scene have recovered pellets of expended AK-47 ammunition while the Explosive Ordnance Devices – Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear Explosives (EOD-CBRNE) unit confirmed the use of Explosives as fragments of the IEDs used were found and after thorough sweeping of the scene, three unexploded IEDs were recovered at the scene of the incident.”

The statement stated that following this development, “the IGP, Usaman Alkali Baba, has ordered full-scale investigations into the incident in order to bring to book the perpetrators of the gruesome killing of the worshippers at the church.”

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