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Gunmen murdered dozens of congregants during Mass at a Catholic Church in Ondo state, Nigeria on Sunday.The attackers used explosives and firearms in their assault on St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, killing more than 50, according to reports. The gunmen also reportedly took the church's priest hostage and he remains unaccounted for.Authorities have yet to release a final tally of those slain or injured in the attack. ...
Police recover explosives following massacre in Nigerian Catholic churchBy Temilade Adelaja and Kazeem SanniOWO, Nigeria, June 6 (Reuters) - Survivors of an attack by unknown assailants on a Catholic church in Nigeria lay weeping and writhing in pain at a local hospital on Monday after suffering what a doctor described as lacerations, bullet wounds and blast injuries.At least 50 people including children were killed, according to media reports, during the attack on St Francis Catholic Church in the town of Owo, which took place during Sunday mass as worshippers were celebrating the Christian holiday of Pentecost. read morePolice, who have yet to release a death toll, said they had recovered unexploded improvised explosive devices and shells from AK-47 ammunition. ...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.Neither the police nor state authorities have blamed any group. ...
