{"id":49298,"date":"2024-09-16T20:04:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T20:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/bandits-attack-kaduna-churches-kill-3-kidnap-pastor-30-others\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T20:04:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T20:04:36","slug":"bandits-attack-kaduna-churches-kill-3-kidnap-pastor-30-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/bandits-attack-kaduna-churches-kill-3-kidnap-pastor-30-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandits attack Kaduna churches, kill 3, kidnap pastor, 30 others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>At least three Christian worshipers have been killed following an unprovoked attack by daredevil bandits in Bakinpah-Maro, a community in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State.<\/p>\n<p>About 31 persons including a pastor were also kidnapped when the assailants launched the attack targeting ECWA and Catholic churches in the community.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST learnt that the incident occurred on Sunday during church service.<\/p>\n<p>According to LEADERSHIP, a former chairman of Kajuru LGA, Cafra Caino confirmed the unfortunate incident.<\/p>\n<p>Caino said the bandits who arrived around 10 am in large numbers, shot sporadically targeting the two churches in the community.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that a pastor of one of the churches Bernard Gajera, was among those kidnapped by the criminal elements.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts by DAILY POST to reach the Kaduna State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Munir Hassan, were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>Bandits attack Kaduna churches, kill 3, kidnap pastor, 30 others<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least three Christian worshipers have been killed following an unprovoked attack by daredevil bandits in Bakinpah-Maro, a community in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131,1319,6972,384,15,761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bandits","category-kaduna","category-kidnap","category-metro","category-news","category-top-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}