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The attack happened at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, a small town in Wilson County, Texas.
Police official Albert Gamez Jr confirmed the number of fatalities to CBS News.
The gunman, who is reported to have been killed in the aftermath, entered the church and opened fire at around 11:30 local time (17:30 GMT).
"The details are kind of sketchy but what I know right now, what they're telling me, like 27 deceased and over 20, 25 injured," Mr Gamez Jr said.
"They're talking about the shooter is dead also," he added.
About 50 people usually attend the service, locals said. Local media outlets reported that children were among the dead.
Donald Trump, who is on a five-country tour in Asia, tweeted: "May God be w/ the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The FBI & law enforcement are on the scene. I am monitoring the situation from Japan."
Witnesses close to the small church reported hearing a rapid barrage of about 20 shots. Pastor Frank Buford of the neighbouring River Oaks church, just a few blocks away from the scene of the shooting, said relatives of victims had started to congregate at a makeshift community center.
"We're holding up as well as we can – we are a strong community, we are strong in our faith," he told local reporters.
Buford described Sutherland Springs as a close-knit community. "We have a post office, two churches and a dollar store," he said.
His church received word that a shooting was under way at their sister place of worship at about 11.15am local time, he said. "We started praying for everyone involved in it," he said.
The pastor of First Baptist, Frank Pomeroy, and his wife were said to be out of town on Sunday and not present when the shooting happened.
First responders converged on the small town of around 400 people. Television stations KSAT and KENS reported a large police presence. A sheriff's department dispatcher said everyone was at the scene and was unavailable to comment.
KSAT reported that two Airlife helicopters were at the scene and broadcast video of several fire and police vehicles at the church and a photograph of a helicopter that the station said was arriving to take victims to hospitals.
BIAFRA: CORPSES OF SLAIN IPOB MEMBERS FOUND INSIDE BUSH
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The Indigenous People
of Biafra (IPOB) has declared 21 days mourning for its members killed
during the military invasion of the home of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu at
Afara Ukwu, Umuahia, Abia State.
This is even as the Biafra agitation group says it has discovered more corpses of her slain members in a bush within the precincts of the home of its leader.
The group equally informed that it is burying the slain members, numbering more than over 28 who were killed during the invasion, in piecemeal with 11 of such bodies already interred.
A senior member of the group, Mark Eze Ofuonye, who disclosed how some of their members were shot dead by the invading soldiers, and their corpses dumped in a bush near the home of the IPOB leader, said:
"Some of our members, numbering over 28, were murdered in cold blood by the military during the invasion of our leader's home at Afara Ukwu. The soldiers were doing a sort of mop up operation; whenever they killed any of our members, they carried away the corpse to conceal their horrendous act but it was not possible.
"So, they filled up their trucks with our members' corpses. The corpses we retrieved and which we are burying at present are those the soldiers could not carry.
They just came out with the intention of killing any human being or living thing that was found in the compound of our leader.
The people they met were not armed still they shot them, even people just standing nearby and those passing through the area were caught in the attack."
Continuing, Ofuonye said: "The corpses we are burying now (referring to the day of the interview) were found inside the bush. They were shot by soldiers and they ran into the bush with bullet wounds thinking that they could receive help there but no help came their way and they died inside the bush. Some of the dead bodies were discovered last week inside the bush at the back of Nnamdi Kanu's house. The 28 were those ones that were killed within the axis of the house of our leader. But the total number killed within this range is 305 persons."
The IPOB chieftain who said there was no need for the operation by the Nigerian army as members of the group did not carry arms neither were they violent, added that the leadership of the group declared the 21-day mourning for their slain members.
He advised the United Nations to send its representatives to the home of their leader at Afara Ukwu to be able to see how soldiers invaded the house of a core civilian with heavy armoury and none of the soldiers sustained any scratch which he said was an indication that despite the propaganda mounted by the Nigerian army, the IPOB members were not armed.
Source: SUN News
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This is even as the Biafra agitation group says it has discovered more corpses of her slain members in a bush within the precincts of the home of its leader.
The group equally informed that it is burying the slain members, numbering more than over 28 who were killed during the invasion, in piecemeal with 11 of such bodies already interred.
A senior member of the group, Mark Eze Ofuonye, who disclosed how some of their members were shot dead by the invading soldiers, and their corpses dumped in a bush near the home of the IPOB leader, said:
"Some of our members, numbering over 28, were murdered in cold blood by the military during the invasion of our leader's home at Afara Ukwu. The soldiers were doing a sort of mop up operation; whenever they killed any of our members, they carried away the corpse to conceal their horrendous act but it was not possible.
"So, they filled up their trucks with our members' corpses. The corpses we retrieved and which we are burying at present are those the soldiers could not carry.
They just came out with the intention of killing any human being or living thing that was found in the compound of our leader.
The people they met were not armed still they shot them, even people just standing nearby and those passing through the area were caught in the attack."
Continuing, Ofuonye said: "The corpses we are burying now (referring to the day of the interview) were found inside the bush. They were shot by soldiers and they ran into the bush with bullet wounds thinking that they could receive help there but no help came their way and they died inside the bush. Some of the dead bodies were discovered last week inside the bush at the back of Nnamdi Kanu's house. The 28 were those ones that were killed within the axis of the house of our leader. But the total number killed within this range is 305 persons."
The IPOB chieftain who said there was no need for the operation by the Nigerian army as members of the group did not carry arms neither were they violent, added that the leadership of the group declared the 21-day mourning for their slain members.
He advised the United Nations to send its representatives to the home of their leader at Afara Ukwu to be able to see how soldiers invaded the house of a core civilian with heavy armoury and none of the soldiers sustained any scratch which he said was an indication that despite the propaganda mounted by the Nigerian army, the IPOB members were not armed.
Source: SUN News
BOKO HARAM'S ABUBAKAR SHEKAU , BUHARI, MAKES LIST OF MOST POWERFUL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD
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President Muhammadu
Buhari, the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar Saad; and Boko Haram leader,
Abubakar Shekau, have again been listed among the most powerful Muslims
in the world.
This is contained in a Muslim publication, The Muslim 500 in its 2018 edition.
The publication noted that there were approximately 1.84 billion Muslims in the world, making up 24.38 per cent of the world's population.
Last year, the trio also made the list of most influential Muslims in the world.
The publication is an annual compilation of the good, the bad, and the ugly in the Islamic world.
Buhari and the Sultan were ranked 19th and 23th, respectively among the first top 50 Muslims in the world.
It explained that Shekau, the head of Boko Haram, a terrorist group in Nigeria had carried out a number of atrocities.
The publication added that Shekau speaks Hausa, Arabic, and English and claimed to have undergone theological training.
Others Nigerians listed in the publication are Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote; JAMB registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede and former justice minister, Prince Bola Ajibola.
This is contained in a Muslim publication, The Muslim 500 in its 2018 edition.
The publication noted that there were approximately 1.84 billion Muslims in the world, making up 24.38 per cent of the world's population.
Last year, the trio also made the list of most influential Muslims in the world.
The publication is an annual compilation of the good, the bad, and the ugly in the Islamic world.
Buhari and the Sultan were ranked 19th and 23th, respectively among the first top 50 Muslims in the world.
It explained that Shekau, the head of Boko Haram, a terrorist group in Nigeria had carried out a number of atrocities.
The publication added that Shekau speaks Hausa, Arabic, and English and claimed to have undergone theological training.
Others Nigerians listed in the publication are Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote; JAMB registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede and former justice minister, Prince Bola Ajibola.
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