ACI Africa, May 10, 2024 / 13:00 pm
The Diocese of Makurdi in Nigeria has ordered the “immediate” closure of Father Angus Frazer Memorial High School for the safety of students and staff after an attack on the institution.
In the late hours of Tuesday, May 7, gunmen allegedly gained access to the school, “shooting indiscriminately while the learners were asleep,” the director of social communications for the Makurdi Diocese, Father Moses Iorapuu, said in a Wednesday, May 8 statement.
Were it not “for the professional handling of the situation by the principal and a team of civil defense officers who repelled the attack, the situation would have been catastrophic,” Iorapuu continued, adding that “one of the heroic officers was shot and is receiving treatment.”
Iorapuu confirmed the closure and explained that the halting of all activities at the school is aimed at preventing “unimaginable disaster” as authorities investigate the attack.