Two of three pastors kidnapped in north-central Nigeria on 21 March have been released, while the third died after being left in the wild.
The Revd Iliya Anto was found dead in the bush ten days after the abduction, said the Revd Jibrailu Wobiya, general secretary of the United Church of Christ in Nigeria. Anto was a pastor in Kaduna city.
The other two pastors, the Revd Dr Emmanuel Dziggau and the Revd Yakubu Dzarma, a retired church leader, were released on Wednesday night [March 30], Wobiya said. Unidentified assailants kidnapped the three pastors along the Kaduna-Abuja Road as the Christian leaders were supervising work at the church’s prayer camp ground.
