By Valentine Amanze, Online Editor
Armed bandits in the early hours of Thursday struck at Idon General Hospital in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, abducting two nurses working in the facility.
The bandits were said to be aware that the hospital is located less than a kilometer from a police checkpoint along the Kaduna-Kachia road in Idon.
The incident came 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.
The Chairman of Kajuru Local Government Area, Cafra Caino, confirmed the incident. He said the bandits stormed the general hospital through the fence with deadly weapons and started shooting sporadically within the hospital premises.
He explained that 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.
Meanwhile, the Police were yet to react on the abduction.
Recall that one staff was killed and scores of students kidnapped in a Tuesday night attack on a private university, Greenfield University, located along the Kaduna–Abuja highway in Chikun Local Government Area.
Eyewitnesses said that the gunmen stormed the university late at night and started shooting sporadically before they took some of the students away.