{"id":1111785,"date":"2022-06-06T08:58:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T08:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/06\/dozens-killed-as-terrorists-attack-church-during-service-in-ondo-state-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T08:58:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T08:58:41","slug":"dozens-killed-as-terrorists-attack-church-during-service-in-ondo-state-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/06\/dozens-killed-as-terrorists-attack-church-during-service-in-ondo-state-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens Killed As Terrorists Attack Church During Service In Ondo State, Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/452eb4c7d4074aa3a7ed266201901dbe\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The terrorists attacked the Catholic Church of St. Francis in Owo, Ondo State, southwest Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Many worshipers were reportedly killed and several others injured in an explosion at a church near the King Olowo Palace.<\/p>\n<p>At least 50 dead bodies have been removed from the church, according to local sources, with many victims lying in Owo Federal Hospital for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>They explained that the church members had been caught unnoticed and said there could be more casualties as some of the pilgrims who were taken to hospital had died.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/d0d3df6057e9475bb0c17f507af05657\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The gunmen also used explosives inside the church building, sources said, but said most people were hit by gun bullets.<\/p>\n<p>The perpetrators are said to have fled the scene soon after the crime happened, leaving many people dead in the pool of their blood.<\/p>\n<p>Several bloodied bodies were seen in the church in the video shared around on social media.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/f1aa59171be84ad690f51429195884f6\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Writer_Akiola (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nNigeria<br \/>\nOndo State<br \/>\nOwo<br \/>\nOwo Federal Hospital<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The terrorists attacked the Catholic Church of St. Francis in Owo, Ondo State, southwest Nigeria. Many worshipers were reportedly killed and several others injured in an explosion at a church near the King Olowo Palace. At least 50 dead bodies have been removed from the church, according to local sources, with many victims lying in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1111786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1255,100,16371,5163,633,16372,185,2742,13985],"class_list":["post-1111785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-attack","tag-church","tag-dozens","tag-killed","tag-nigeria","tag-ondo","tag-service","tag-state","tag-terrorists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}