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The Diocese of Minna wrote in a statement: "The rectory was completely burned and the parish priest, the Reverend Father Isaac Achi, was killed while t ...
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Father Isaac Achi was killed and his colleague, Father Colins Omeh, shot at but alive in an attack on their rectory. Elsewhere in Nigeria, five worshippers getting ready for Sunday Mass were abducted.
In one attack, criminals known locally as 'bandits' set fire to Father Isaac Achi's house, burning him alive, police said.
Armed attackers burnt a Catholic priest alive and abducted five worshippers in two separate attacks in central and northwestern Nigeria, police said.