Ondo State Governor Arakunrin Akeredolu on Monday directed that flags in the state should be flown at half-mast for seven days. RISING VIOLENCE Pope Francis and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari were among those who expressed horror on Sunday. A lot of bodies right there in the church, blood-soaked bodies," he told AIT television channel. The Catholic bishop of the diocese of Ondo, Jude Ayodeji Arogundade, described a scene of carnage after the attack. Authorities have said nothing about the identity or motive of the attackers. Owo is located in Ondo State in southwest Nigeria, a part of the country that does not usually experience violent conflict over religion. Medical director Dr Ahmed Lasu said 13 children had been rushed to the hospital, of whom two were dead on arrival.
Dr Samuel Aluko, a registrar at the hospital, said 27 adult victims were receiving treatment for a wide range of injuries, some life-threatening. A 15-year-old victim lay silently with a drip in his hand. One man writhed and moaned on his bed while a woman wept as she embraced her brother. Other survivors had limbs wrapped in bloodstained bandages. He appeared dazed as he sat on his hospital bed. "Immediately they entered and started firing everywhere, so many people," said Alex Michael, who was shot in the leg while protecting his children by hiding them under chairs. Inside the church, streaks of blood on the floors and walls, a broken lectern and pew, plaster debris and abandoned items including shoes and a well-thumbed Bible covered in shards of glass bore witness to the intensity of the violence. 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. 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.
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