Nigerian Seminary Student Burnt To Death In Terrorist Attack

Nigerian Seminary Student Burnt To Death In Terrorist Attack

Nigerian Seminary Student Burnt To Death In Terrorist Attack: A Catholic seminary student was killed by burning in Nigeria by suspected Fulani Terrorists.

The terrorists were said to have been unable to enter the home of the parish priest they sought to kidnap, and instead set fire on the rectory of St. Raphael’s Catholic Church in Fadan Kamantan, in southern Kaduna state, under the Kafanchan Diocese.

Unfortunately, the young Seminarian identified as Na’aman Danlami, attached to the parish lost his  life while the priest, the Rev. Emmanuel Okolo, and his assistant managed to escape.

According to an area priest who had taught Danlami at the St. Albert Institute, the Rev. Williams Kaura Abba;

“The bandits went for a kidnapping spree,” Abba said. “Two priests in the burnt house were able to escape. The seminarian was trapped. The bandits set the rectory ablaze. Na’aman Danlami, the seminarian, died of asphyxiation and suffered severe burns. May God rest the soul of this martyr.”

The remains of Danlami’s have since been taken to a mortuary. Danlami was aged 25 at the time of his death.

The Rev. John Hayab, head of the Kaduna State Chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), bemoaned the absence of security in the region.

“It is sad that killings and this type of evil against Christians are still going on in spite of our appeal and pleading to Nigerian government to take measures towards ending these attacks,” Hayab said.

According to Aid to the Church in Need, four Catholic priests were murdered and 28 were abducted in Nigeria in 2022, while 14 Catholic clergymen have been abducted so far this year.