Gunmen attack a Catholic and Baptist church in Kaduna on Sunday, killing three people, injuring two, and abducting dozens of others.
Unknown gunmen suspected to be terrorists attacked worshippers at a Catholic church and a Baptist church on Sunday morning - both of them located in Kajuru Local Government Area, Kaduna State - in the latest instance of insecurity in Nigeria.
Media reports say the attackers struck Maranatha Baptist Church and St. Moses Catholic Church on 19 June, killing at least three people, injuring two others, and kidnapping over thirty persons in the raid.
The attack came barely a week after some terrorists invaded communities in the same Kajuru LGA, killing over 30 villagers.
Worshippers were attending the church service at the Maranatha Baptist Church and at St. Moses Catholic Church in Rubu community of Kaduna on Sunday morning when the assailants “just came and surrounded the churches,” both located in the same area, said Usman Danladi, who lives nearby.
“Before they (worshippers) noticed, they were already terrorizing them; some began attacking inside the church, then others proceeded to other areas,” Danladi said. He added that “most of the victims kidnapped are from the Baptist (church) while the three killed were Catholics.”
The Kaduna state government confirmed the three deaths by bandits who “stormed the villages on motorcycles, beginning from Ungwan Fada, and moving into Ungwan Turawa, before Ungwan Makama and then Rubu.” Security patrols are being conducted in the general area as investigations proceed, according to Samuel Aruwan, Kaduna commissioner for security.
The Christian Association of Nigeria condemned Sunday’s attacks and said churches in Nigeria have become targets of armed groups.
“It is very unfortunate that when we are yet to come out of the mourning of those killed in Owo two Sundays ago, another one has happened in Kaduna,” Pastor Adebayo Oladeji, the association’s spokesman, told The Associated Press. “It has become a recurring decimal.”
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