American Pastor Josh Sullivan saved in the shooting after abduction at the shot point in South Africa, the authorities say

The American Pastor Josh Sullivan was saved on Tuesday in the middle of the shooting between the South African police and his abductors left by three suspects dead, the authorities said on Wednesday. Sullivan, native to Tennessee, was abducted on top During the prayer meeting in his church in South Africa in the evening 10. April.

Toward a statement She issued in the South African Police Service, a specialized unit dedicated to serious crime, known as Hawks, were conducted by the operation to save 45 years.

The American was abducted from his church of the church in Motherwell, outside the coastal town of Gqeberh, and was saved from the safer used by his kidnappers in that city.

“The operation followed the proven intelligence in which the coordinated team (several police units) quickly moved to the identified location,” police said. “As the officers approached home, they noticed the vehicle in the premises after seeing the law allegedly attempted to run away and open tactical precision in which they led to a high intensity in which three unidentified suspects.”

Police said Sullivan was discovered in the same vehicle and “miraculously undamaged, immediately assessed by medical staff and is currently in excellent condition.”

Police said that four armed, masked male suspects entered the church to stole two mobile phones on Thursday, and then hijacked Sullivan, in his car, Toyota Fortuner found.

Rev. Jeremy Hall, the local pastor, told French AFP news agency that Sullivan’s abduction was probably “financially connected.”

Police spokesman Captain Andre Betgesys said for AFP that cases usually crossed the falconry when the ransom are sought. Abductions, including criminal gangs that take people who think they can command great redemptions, in South Africa in recent years.

Sullivan held a prayer meeting with about 30 people, including his wife and six children, when armed kidnappers entered his church, the hall said.

Sullivan arrived in South Africa with the Tennessee family in November 2018. year, according to His personal website.

“We are looking for a language school soon and plant the church on Xhos who speak people,” he wrote in that place.

Sullivan was on staff in the Fellinghip Baptist Church in Maryville, Tennessee, from February 2012, according to the site.

The Sullivanska wife Megan announced a statement through a family spokesperson on Saturday, thanks to the people on the “spill of love and prayer”.