{"id":580402,"date":"2025-11-19T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/580402\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T12:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:42:15","slug":"bbc-verify-live-russian-strike-on-high-rise-in-western-ukraine-kills-at-least-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/580402\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Russian strike on high rise in western Ukraine kills at least 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verifying footage showing moment of Nigeria church attackpublished at 12:29 GMT<\/p>\n<p>12:29 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><strong>Peter Mwai and Paul Brown<\/strong><br \/>BBC Verify<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People inside a church reacting to the sound of gunfire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0f5564f2-b615-422a-a1b1-3f7c58421f82.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1673\" height=\"941\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, XImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People inside the church reacted instantly the moment gunshots were heard<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We have verified video showing the moment armed men attacked a church in Nigeria yesterday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Authorities say two people were killed and an unknown number abducted in the attack in western Kwara state, according to local media reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the video, which appears to be a live stream, a service is going on when we hear gunshots. People inside the church panic and run to hide. Some of the worshippers are elderly women, unable to move quickly to safety. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Later we see men, some of them armed with rifles, enter the church and grab bags left on pews. Afterwards, they kick open one of the doors to where the worshippers are hiding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shooting continues to be heard throughout the clip, although it isn\u2019t clear what is being fired upon. Towards the end of the video, the device being used to record rings and a man we see briefly cuts off the feed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We have verified the location as being the Christ Apostolic Church in a town called Eruku by matching the interior of the church to previous footage filmed there that was uploaded on YouTube in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The killing of Christians in Nigeria has been in the headlines recently, after US president Donald Trump said the religion is facing an existential threat there and threatened to intervene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Verify has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/c6296l81eget?post=asset%3A442c24cf-3ca6-4124-985c-62ab3a234283#post\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigated the extent to which Christians and other groups have been targeted in Nigeria<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man holding an assault rifle and handbags\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2fe5dd86-32eb-4543-af75-9d3b919d1b5e.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1600\" height=\"869\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, XImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The live stream captured men, some of whom were carrying guns, grabbing handbags from pews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Verifying footage showing moment of Nigeria church attackpublished at 12:29 GMT 12:29 GMT Peter Mwai and Paul BrownBBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-580402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115576422907052921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}