Gun-wielding men stormed the Abdulsalam Abubakar General Hospital Hospital, Gulu in Niger State in the early hours of Tuesday.
The terrorists killed two people and kidnapped many others including the hospital doctor and pharmacist. The incident happened at 2 am with gunshots waking residents of the community who fled to safety.
“They came in the midnight and started shooting, people woke up from sleep in the area and started running for their lives, then they went into the hospital and packed as many people as they wanted including the doctor and left,” an eyewitness confirmed.
He added that the bandits killed former medical personnel who lives opposite the hospital. They raided the hospital abducting as many people as they could without hindrance.
“One of the people they killed is a former staff in the hospital who lives opposite the hospital. I don’t know his other name but we all call him Ya-Tachi
“Nobody stopped them and no security agent showed up not even the local vigilance group members came,” Nda Mohammed added.
Those kidnapped include the head of Peri Op and his wife; the Head of clinical, Dr. John; wife and daughter of the chief pharmacist; the Head of haematology, Usman Zabbo; the wife of the head of nursing and his two daughters; the head of medical laboratory and other relatives of patients.
The state Governor, Abubakar Bello, in a press statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mary Noel-Berje, confirmed the incident.
Bello lamented the spate of insecurity in that axis of the state. He called on the Joint Security Taskforce in the state to urgently put an end to the incessant armed banditry, kidnappings, and wanton attacks on several communities at Gulu in Lapai Local Government Area.