Tragedy struck at the weekend when a Church crusade turned to free for all and a female church member making peace was stabbed to death in Lagos.
It was gathered that the female peacemaker, Rachel Johnson, 47, who was separating a fight between some Church members at Abaranje, Ikotun area of the state ,was stabbed to death .
A senior Police officer, said that at about 3:am on Saturday, the deceased husband, Okerube Johnson, came to Ikotun Police Station to report that his wife Rachel, was had gone to a crusade in a church, but that some Church members were fighting and Rachel, a peacemaker was separating fight between some Church members who were quarrelling over an undisclosed matter.
” He told us that while she was separating the fighters, one of them, stabbed her in the neck with a sharp object and she started bleeding. She was immediately rushed to Igando General Hospital, but all efforts to revive her proved abortive as she bled to death. Her body was deposited at Mainland General Hospital Mortuary, Yaba,for autopsy, while effort are being made to arrest the fleeing perpetrator”.
Lagos State police Public Relations officer (PPRO), said the case was being investigated.
