Gunmen killed a security guard and abducted three seminarians in the Catholic Diocese of Auchi in Nigeria’s Edo State on the night of 10 July.
Bandits breached the walls of the Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary at Ivhianokpodi, in Nigeria’s Edo State, for the second time in less than a year, killing Mr. Christopher Aweneghieme, a Nigerian Civil Defence officer assigned to the seminary, before abducting three teenage seminarians.
This comes following an attack in October 2024, when gunmen abducted Rev. Fr. Thomas Oyode and killed a young seminarian. The abducted priest returned to the seminary alive, but battered and traumatised.
