No fewer than seven persons, including four policemen, were killed when gunmen attacked the convoy of the Founder of Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleiman.
According to available information, the attack was carried out along Benin Auchi Road, Edo State, on Friday.
Sources told The Eagle Online that a lady was among the seven persons shot dead.
Suleman was said to have returned from a crusade in Tanzania shortly before he was attacked around Auchi, his base in Edo State.
His lawyer, Samuel Immune, confirmed the development.
Immune said: “He was returning from a journey and he had almost gotten to the shores of Auchi when some assassins attacked him.
“Three of his police orderlies, among others died.
“He traveled before and just finished a program in Tanzania the day before yesterday.
“He was returning to Auchi when the gunmen attacked him along Sabingida down to the Warake area, and Auchi shares a direct boundary with Warake.
“So, he had passed Warake and was entering the boundaries of Auchi when the attack happened.”
