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Jeremy Hall, the Sullivan family's spokesman, told local newspaper TimesLIVE that he was at the church with his wife and their children when he was kidnapped.

An American pastor who was kidnapped by armed men during a church service in South Africa last week has been rescued following a "high-intensity shoot-out" that left three people dead, authorities say.

But the situation took a turn when Ivania was kidnapped and this was the "straw that broke that camel's back" in order for them to leave, Mr Gale said.

His apparent death comes after bandits kidnapped 43 villagers and killed four others in a deadly attack on a village called Maigora in the northern Katsina State earlier this week.

After several of the band’s members were briefly kidnapped, they decided to leave.