The Olowo of Owo, Oba Gbadegesin Ogunoye III, has addressed youths who besieged his palace demanding that the perpetrators of the Sunday’s deadly attack on St Francis Catholic Church, purportedly arrested, be handed over to them.
The attackers had struck on Sunday while worshippers were celebrating mass and killed at least 40, while several others were injured.
Yesterday, videos of residents of the town celebrating the arrest of the attackers said to bandits emerged.
The Olowo later announced that the reported arrest is untrue.