(ANSA) - VATICAN CITY, JUN 06 - Sources from the Church of Owo, in the Nigerian state of Ondo, the scene of the massacre that occurred in the church of St. Francis Xavier, provided the papal foundation Aid to the Church with an update on the victims of the attack.
"The morgues to which the lifeless bodies have been transferred are more than one. In the first so far visited by our source, 25 corpses were taken".
The same source, however, specifies that the lifeless bodies identified and confirmed are over 50. "It will be possible to have a definitive number only after having visited all the departments of the different hospitals", reports ACS.
The toll provided by the civil authorities is instead of 21 deaths.
But the priests in the field provide a different version.
As for the dynamics of the attack, sources from the Chiesalocale, which cannot be cited "for security reasons", told Aid to the Church in Need, which supports Christians persecuted all over the world, that "two of the responsible for the massacre were at inside the place of worship, while an unspecified number of further attackers were outside the church. After the first gunshots, the faithful tried to escape both from the main door and from the windows ".
Acs also reports that "it was impossible to take all the victims to a single hospital, so it was necessary to divide them into small groups and then entrust them to the care of various health facilities".
For this reason it is necessary - concludes the foundation - to check all the structures that have welcomed victims and injured in order to take stock of the attack.
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