Heartbreaking! See the One-year-old Boy Shot During the Ozubulu Church Massacre (Photo)

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A man, who lost his wife to the massacre at St. Philip’s Catholic Church, Ozubulu, Anambra State has narrated how his one-year-old boy survived a gunshot, according to a report by NewTelegraph

The man identified as Mr. Peter Nwike while speaking at the Children’s Ward of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi revealed that the boy, Master Chimelum Nwike, was shot on his mother’s back and the bullet came out through his abdomen.

Nwike, however, said the baby’s mother died on the Sunday night after operation.

He said: “On Sunday morning, my wife and my son left for church about 6a.m.

After a while, we started hearing gunshots and subsequently shouts and weeping.

I rushed to the church.

On getting there, I met my son lying in a pool of blood on the floor alone.

“I did not know they have taken my wife to the hospital.

I picked my son and we were rushed to this hospital but my wife died after operation that night.

“I am from Ezza in Ebonyi State but I live at Umuezekwe Ofufe Amaka in Uzoakwa, Ozubulu where the incident took place.

They shot my wife several times.

A bullet hit my son in the back went out through his abdomen.

The boy is responding to treatment but my wife is now in the mortuary.”