{"id":78937,"date":"2025-11-19T07:46:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78937"},"modified":"2025-11-19T07:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:46:19","slug":"gunmen-kill-three-abduct-pastor-worshippers-in-kwara-church-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/19\/gunmen-kill-three-abduct-pastor-worshippers-in-kwara-church-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Kill Three, Abduct Pastor, Worshippers in Kwara Church Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu<\/p>\n<p>Terror gripped Eruku town in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State on Tuesday evening as gunmen attacked a Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) branch, killing three worshippers and abducting the pastor and several others.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said the attackers stormed the church during a meeting and opened fire indiscriminately, causing worshippers to flee in panic.<\/p>\n<p>Three members were shot dead instantly before the assailants rounded up others at gunpoint and marched them into the bush.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gunmen came suddenly and started shooting. Three people were killed instantly. They took many others away, but we don\u2019t yet know how many,\u201d a community source said.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers were said to have escaped through bush paths linking Eruku with neighbouring towns.<\/p>\n<p>As of press time, the Kwara State Police Command and state authorities had not issued any official statement on the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Terror gripped Eruku town in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State on Tuesday evening as gunmen attacked a Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) branch, killing three worshippers and abducting the pastor and several others. Witnesses said the attackers stormed the church during a meeting and opened fire indiscriminately, causing worshippers to flee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":78938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78939,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78937\/revisions\/78939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}