Owo Church Massacre: Father And 11-Year-Old Daughter Laid To Rest In Enugu

A 57-year-veteran man, Mr Ani Virginus Ugwuja, who became once killed alongside his 11-year-veteran daughter within the terrorist assault at the Saint Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo say has been laid to relaxation.

The daddy and daughter had been buried on Saturday, July 2, at their procedure of delivery in Muohagwu Obie Aku village within the Igbo-Etiti Native Authorities Situation of Enugu Affirm.

It became once learnt that the deceased’s wife and one of his young of us had attended the early morning provider that fateful day in June and returned safely sooner than he, alongside his son and daughter, Chidiogo, joined the next provider wherein the terrorists struck.

Viral reports narrate that Ugwuja’s son survived by falling on his father’s physique, feigning to thrill in also been shot.

On Sunday, June 5, gunmen attacked worshippers all over mass, killing at the very least 38 of us, and about 80 others sustained diverse degrees of injuries all around the assault.

A funeral mass became once held in honor of these slain within the assault on Friday, June 17.

Alternatively, twenty-one coffins had been dropped at the church for the funeral provider, as just a few of them had already been buried for the reason that members of the family couldn’t wait.

In other news, Bishop David Oyedepo, the Head Pastor of the Living Religion Church, has declared that the attackers of the St. Francis Church in Owo, Ondo Affirm, will face consequences for his or her crimes.

Reacting to the tragic incident all over a sermon at the church’s headquarters, Ota in Ogun Affirm on Wednesday, the clergyman expressed outrage at the degree of insecurity ravaging the nation.

He pronounced instantaneous judgment on the killers, declaring that they would perish alongside their sponsors.