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Nigeria (CNN)A church in southwestern Nigeria became the site of a
bloody attack on Sunday, according to local lawmakers.

Attackers stormed into the church in the city of Owo and began
"shooting sporadically," Adeyemi Olayemi, the legislator representing
the Owo constituency in the Ondo State House of Assembly, told CNN.

At least 28 people were killed, Olayemi said.

"The attackers came in motorcycles and started shooting sporadically,"
he said. "They killed many people inside the church."

Victims are being are taken to Federal Medical Center in Owo, Olayemi
said.

State police could not confirm the total number of casualties at St.
Francis Catholic Church, a police spokesperson told CNN, nor could
they identify those behind the attack.

Ondo State Governor Arakunrin Akeredolu said he was "shocked" by the
attack and called it a "black Sunday in Owo."

"I am deeply saddened by the unprovoked attack and killing of innocent
people of Owo, worshiping at the St. Francis Catholic Church, today,"
he said on Twitter, adding that "the vile and satanic attack is a
calculated assault on the peace-loving people of Owo Kingdom who have
enjoyed relative peace over the years."

The governor vowed to "commit every available resource to hunt down
these assailants and make them pay."

"We shall never bow to the machinations of heartless elements in our
resolves to rid our state of criminals," he continued, asking the
public not to "take the laws into your hands."

"I urge our people to remain calm and vigilant. Do not take laws into
your hands. I have spoken to the heads of the security agencies. I
have equally been assured that security operatives would be deployed
to monitor and restore normalcy to Owo kingdom," Akeredolu wrote.

Lethal attacks by motorbike-riding gangs are rare in southwestern
Nigeria. Such attacks are more widespread in swathes of the country's
north, which is constantly under siege by Boko Haram terrorists and
marauding gunmen known locally as 'bandits.'

The Owo church attack comes one week after another church tragedy,
when 31 people were killed and others injured during a stampede at a
church event in the southeastern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt.

CNN's Nimi Princewill reported from Abuja and Amy Cassidy wrote from
London

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/05/africa/mass-shooting-nigeria-church-intl/index.html

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