Capuchin Reverend Father, Toussaint Zoumalde, has been killed in Ngaoundere, Cameroon.
Rev. Fr. Zoumalde was killed on his way from his Baibokoum fraternity in Chad, Fides News Agency
reported on March 21, 2019.
According to a statement by the General Custody
of the Capuchins for Chad and the Central African Republic, Rev. Fr. Toussaint Zoumaldé had gone to the diocese of Bouar, in the western part of Central Africa, from which he hails in order to conduct training for local priests.
In the night between March 19-20, 2019, unknown people attacked him and killed him in Ngaoundéré (Cameroon) where he stopped over to rest, but at the moment his killers are nowhere to be found.
Rev. Fr. Toussaint (born in 1971) had worked extensively as a journalist for Radio Siriri, of the diocese of Bouar, and composed several religious songs.
The tragic death of Rev. Fr. Toussaint Zoumaldé took place at the same time of the discovery of the body of Rev. Fr. Clement Rapuluchukwu Ugwu, a Nigerian priest of the Catholic Diocese of Enugu kidnapped on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at his parish priest rectory, but found dead a week after and of the disappearance in Burkina Faso of Rev. Fr. Joël Yougbaré, parish priest of Djibo.