Josh Sullivan, kidnapped American pastor, rescued by South African authorities

Authorities within the province of Japanese Cape of South Africa have saved a kidnapped American pastor throughout a lethal shootout on Tuesday in a home in Komagxaki, Gqberha.

The Directorate for Precedence Crime Investigation (Hawks) launched a press release stating that an operation led by the company “resulted within the profitable rescue” of an American pastor who was kidnapped.

Though the press launch didn’t point out the pastor, the 34-year-old Josh Sullivan, Van Tennessee, was kidnapped final week by numerous armed, masked males in his church within the Japanese Cape.

The American pastor Josh Sullivan, who was kidnapped from his church within the province of Japanese Kaap final week, was saved by the police after a “shootout with excessive depth”. (Fellowship Baptist Church/Fb)

The police stated they obtained suggestions that Sullivan was in a protected home in Komagxaki, Gqberha. After they arrived on the home, suspects began capturing in a automotive on the location and tried to flee.

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A “excessive intensive shootout” happened and three non-intended suspects have been killed.

Sullivan was present in the identical automotive the place the suspects have been in, however he was “miraculously unhurt,” the police stated, including that he’s “at present in a wonderful state”.

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