{"id":235421,"date":"2026-06-05T17:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-despite-death-sentence-for-killers-owo-massacre-survivors-still-in-agony\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T17:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:03:54","slug":"nigeria-despite-death-sentence-for-killers-owo-massacre-survivors-still-in-agony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-despite-death-sentence-for-killers-owo-massacre-survivors-still-in-agony\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Despite Death Sentence for Killers, Owo Massacre Survivors Still in Agony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><strong> <em>Govt should find, punish massacre sponsors, says woman who lost legs, eye<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Four years after the deadly attack on worshippers at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, survivors and families of victims say the pain has not eased, even after a Federal High Court sentenced four suspects to death by hanging over the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">On June 5, 2022, gunmen stormed the church during Sunday Mass and opened fire on congregants in one of the most shocking attacks on a place of worship in Nigeria&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606050459.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Govt should find, punish massacre sponsors, says woman who lost legs, eye Four years after the deadly attack on worshippers at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, survivors and families of victims say the pain has not eased, even after a Federal High Court sentenced four suspects to death by hanging over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":235422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9802,6974,20374,2075,257,4687,393,54472,7355,254,6040],"class_list":["post-235421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agony","tag-death","tag-killers","tag-massacre","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-owo","tag-sentence","tag-south-africa-today","tag-survivors"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}