NAIROBI, Kenya – Eight gunmen attacked a Pentecostal church radio station during a program that compared the teachings of the Bible and the Quran, killing one person and setting fire to the building.
Church leaders and government officials condemned the attack on Hope FM, which came late Friday, and warned Christians and Muslims to avoid religious conflict in this East African nation.
“The government condemns this attack. It is a criminal act,” government spokesman Alfred Mutua said after visiting the burned offices.
A security guard was shot to death during the attack and another was wounded, according to a passer-by who was shot when he went to investigate why the emergency alarm had gone off.
The assailants poured a flammable liquid in the radio station offices and set it on fire, a security guard told the independent Kenya Television Network.
The masked assailants shouted angrily that producers had failed to take their telephone calls and ordered a technician to take the station off air, according to church workers.
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