There was a discrepancy within the figures given to media through government, with an area lawmaker Adeyemi Olayemi telling CNN that almost 50 other folks died within the taking pictures after the attackers got here in on bikes.
Ajanaku advised CNN that she counted 39 footage in a tribute booklet created for the sufferers on the funeral mass.
A listing of injured additionally confirmed 74 other folks being handled in health center for “various levels of accidents,” in step with the booklet.
“There are 31 with footage and eight empty slots for one of the crucial sufferers,” she advised CNN from the provider.
“Some Igbo other folks carried their lifeless again to the southeast of the rustic. I am nonetheless no longer positive what number of died,” she stated.
Ajanaku added that the priest paid tribute to the sufferers together with a two year-old and a 65-year-old.
Laide described the temper as “somber,” within the packed corridor including that some distraught kin had been rolling at the floor and a few are crying within the corridor.”
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, and a former governor of the state, Olusegun Mimiko, had been a number of the dignitaries provide on the mass.
After the taking pictures, Pope Francis introduced prayers for the sufferers who had been “painfully attacked at a time of birthday celebration,” a observation from the Vatican stated.
