A Nigerian federal court has sentenced four men to death for the 2022 Pentecost Sunday massacre at a Catholic church in southern Nigeria that killed 41 worshipers and injured more than 100 others.

Judge Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja found Idris Abdulmalik Omeiza, 25; Al Qasim Idris, 20; Jamiu Abdulmalik, 26; and Abdulhaleem Idris, 25, guilty on all nine counts, including joining a terrorist organization, conspiracy to commit a terrorist act, kidnapping, hostage-taking, terrorism financing, detonation of explosives causing death and injury, and homicide.

The court ruled that the prosecution had proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt and that the evidence presented against the defendants had not been contradicted, reports BBC. The court also sentenced the four men to 20 years in prison for belonging to a terrorist group.

A fifth defendant, Momoh Otuho Abubakar, 47, was acquitted and discharged for lack of evidence.

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