By our reporter| Two nurses working with Idon General Hospital in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State have been kidnapped by heavily armed bandits.
The hospital is located less than a kilometer from a police checkpoint along the Kaduna-Kachia road in Idon.
The Chairman of Kajuru Local Government Area, Cafra Caino, who confirmed the incident on Thursday, said the bandits attacked with deadly weapons after breaching the perimetre fence.
According to him, two nurses identified as Afiniky Bako and Grace Inkut who were on night duty were taken away by the bandits.
The Chairman also said that plans were underway to boost security in the hospital and environs to avoid a future occurrence of such an attack.
The medical director of the hospital, Shingyu Shamnom also confirmed the incident.
“We were in our homes until a call was put through to us that it was kidnappers who invaded the hospital, only to discover that two of the nurses on night duty have been taken away by the bandits,” he said.
“The kidnappers went away with the phone of one of the staff whom we thought was also kidnapped but he later returned.”
Thursday’s attack comes barely 24 hours after several students were abducted and one person killed during an attack on Greenfield University along the Kaduna-Abuja highway in Chikun Local Government Area.
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