The Catholic Diocese of Enugu has confirmed an attack on a Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Bartholomew Chime, in the evening of February 25, 2022, along Ninth Mile area, Enugu, while he was on a pastoral work.
Director of communicatiins, Enugu Diocese, Rev. Fr. Benjamin Achi, said, Monday afternoon, that the priest had been rescued and was receiving treatment in an undisclosed hospital in the state.
Rev. Fr. Achi, said Fr. Chime, who was ordained a priest in December, was badly shot on his leg by the gunmen.
“He was travelling. Armed men accosted him and then stopped him and were demanding money from him. So, he told them he doesn’t have money.”
“They collected the things he had and eventually shot him on the leg and put him in the trunk of the car and drove off,” Rev. Fr. Achi stated.
According to him, the gunmen stopped at a tollgate around the Enugu-Onitsha Road, brought out the priest from the car boot, dumped him in a nearby bush and drove away in his car.
The Diocesan Spokesperson disclosed that Rev. Fr. Chime managed to come out of the bush and dragged himself to the road where he started calling for help, adding that the Priest’s car was yet to be recovered.
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