- Unknown gunmen have abducted a Catholic priest in Imo State, Izu Marcell Onyeocha.
- The abducted cleric, who is a lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities at the Imo State University, is a native of the Avuru Community in the Ikeduru council area.
Unknown gunmen have abducted a Catholic priest in Imo State, Izu Marcell Onyeocha.
EKO HOT BLOG gathered that the priest was abducted around 7:00 am on Sunday at Ihube community in the Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State.
The abducted cleric, who is a lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities at the Imo State University, is a native of the Avuru Community in the Ikeduru council area.
He was said to have been on transit from Enugu to Owerri when the incident occurred.
According to a resident of Okigwe town, the priest was driving when the gunmen accosted him, adding that the gunmen shot indiscriminately into the air to force him to stop.
“The kidnappers shot sporadically in the air to scare away other road users at the scene of the operation. They drove the cleric in his car at the scene of the incident,” the resident said.
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