Gunmen abduct two nurses in Kaduna

Etim Effiong

Gunmen have abducted two nurses working with Idon General Hospital in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

The nurses were kidnapped in the early hours of Thursday, barely 24 hours after several students were kidnapped 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, who confirmed the kidnap, said the bandits stormed the general hospital through the fence with deadly weapons and started shooting continuously within the hospital premises.

According to him, two nurses identified as Afiniky Bako and Grace Inkut who were on night duty were taken away by the assailants.

Caino said also that plans were underway to boost security in the hospital and environs to avoid a future occurrence of such an attack.

It was learnt that a staff member was killed, and many 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 the gunmen stormed the university late at night and started shooting sporadically before they took some of the students away. The locals said that the university with about 40 student’s population does not have enough security on the ground, despite being located in one of the epicentres of kidnapping, a situation which they believe made it easier for the bandits to gain easy access into the institution.