A cross exchange

by Feòrag

Kenya: A Christian worshipper has been killed in a fight during a prayer meeting in a church. Joseph Okech, 26, was hit in the nape with a wooden plank yanked off a huge cross standing on the church compound.

Trouble started when a group invaded the church during the sermon, and tried to eject a priest whose leadership they were opposed to.

Witnesses said Mr Okech was felled by a blow to the nape by a member of the invading group who had suffered a beating from his opponents earlier.

The attacker just rose from where he had fallen, broke off the horizontal part of the big cross in the compound and started beating everyone in sight. He reached Okech and hit him on the back of the head with the wooden plank, said a witness who declined to be named.

Fighting in Church Leaves Man Dead - The Nation (via allAfrica.com), 17th March 2003.