"They closed the Church, stood by doors, and started throwing IEDs and shooting directly at the helpless worshippers," said Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza of Yola Diocese in Adamawa State about Sunday's attack in Waga Chakawa.
"They closed the Church, stood by doors, and started throwing IEDs and shooting directly at the helpless worshippers," said Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza of Yola Diocese in Adamawa State about Sunday's attack in Waga Chakawa.
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Bishop Mamza said the attack, suspected to be the work of Boko Haram, left 31 parishioners dead, and 11 others mutilated by knives and gun wounds.
“The attack took place in our out-station Church on Sunday morning in a village called Waga Chakawa. The Church is under St. Dennis Catholic Church, Madagali in Adamawa State. They were about to finish Holy Mass with the Catechist when the suspected men arrived in Hilux vans and some on motorcycles."
"Those that were escaping through the widow were being slaughtered like rams and others killed through their sophisticated guns."
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He added, “I have never seen this tragedy; it is a gradual elimination of people with impunity and desecration and sanctity of human lives.”
The Bishop said after the gang had finished with the helpless villagers inside the Church, the attackers went into the village and slaughtered about ten people of several Churches and escaped without any response.
Bishop Mamza had a plea for the Nigerian government, “I am begging in the name of God, government and security agencies should come to the aid of poor Nigerians irrespective of their religion, status or whatever and give them protection. We are mourning these children and adults whose innocent lives were brutally stuffed out of them unjustifiably.”
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