Police in Nigeria arrest suspected killers of Fr.
Cyriacus
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| The late Fr. Cyriacus Onumkwo of Nigeria.- RV |
Police in Nigeria have arrested the suspected killers of
Catholic priest, Fr Cyriacus Onunkwo, who was kidnapped last Friday and later
found murdered in the town of Orlu. Orlu is the second largest city, after
Owerri, in the southeast of Nigeria's Imo State.
Nigerian Catholic Secretariat sources and Nigerian media
confirmed the arrest of a gang of six persons led by an ex-police corporal,
Jude Madu. The ex-police corporal, is said to be the leader of the persons
behind the abduction and murder of the priest.
The sources at the Catholic Secretariat told Vatican Radio
that the gang had confessed to the crime. According to the confession, Fr.
Onunkwo was kidnapped with the view to extort ransom money from his family and
the Church. He is said to have died out of suffocation because his mouth and
nose were cellotaped by the criminals.
In Nigeria, kidnappings and murders targeting priests and
the religious have increased in recent years.
Fr. Onunkwo who was working in another diocese had returned
to his home city of Orlu to make arrangements for the burial of his father when
he met his untimely death.
(Vatican
Radio)
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