Drama as thugs beat up worshipers during church service

– Hoodlums invade a church in Osun state on Sunday, January 31

– The thugs beat up some of the church members

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File photo of a church

Suspected hoodlums armed with guns and other dangerous weapons stormed the Divine Victory Evangelical Church of God Gospel Ministry in Osun state on Sunday, January 31, where they beat up worshipers and injured some.

According to The Punch, one of the youths at Isale Agbara in Ita Olokan area of Osogbo where the church is located was seen defecating very close to the church and was challenged by some of the worshipers.

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The youth was said to have left the place in anger and went to mobilise some hoodlums who unleashed terror on the worshipers during service.

Some of the youths in the church were said to have engaged the hoodlums in a fight but they were overpowered and some of them were reportedly injured by the hoodlums.

Taye who is a resident of the area on Saturday, February 6, said that the service was disrupted as most of the worshipers fled the scene of the incident after about 10 of them had been injured by the rampaging hoodlums.

Wale Folarin, the hmead, Public Relations and Protocol Unit of the NSCDC in Osun state, confirmed the incident saying that seven of the attackers were arrested and weapons including a locally made gun were recovered from them.

Folarin said: “The timely intervention of officers and men of the Civil Defence prevented the fracas from escalating.”

Meanwhile, the Lagos state government has denied the rumour that hoodlums were killed during a raid on a criminal hideout in Iddo area of the state.

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The raid was carried out by the Lagos state task force on Wednesday, February 3 in a bid to rid the state of crime as directed by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.

According to a statement signed by the chairman of the taskforce, Olubukola Abey the taskforce officers had stormed the area at about 2.00am on Wednesday and carried out an operation but they met stiff resistance from the supposed miscreants who attacked them with petrol bomb bottles and other weapons.

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