What the records say
- When
- 7 Aug 2012
- Kind
- Shooting
- Coordinates
- 7.61° N, 6.27° E
- Description
- At least 21 people are killed in a gun attack on a church and later an Army patrol near the city of Okene in Kogi state, central Nigeria.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Deeper Life Bible Church shooting.
Deeper Life Bible Church shooting
Nigerian church shooting in 2012
On 7 August 2012, a mass shooting occurred at Deeper Life, an evangelical Christian church near Okene in Nigeria's central Kogi State. Three unidentified gunmen killed 19 people, including the church's pastor. The following day, in an apparent reprisal killing, three gunmen on motorcycles killed two soldiers and a civilian outside a mosque in Okene.
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