Some bandits have invaded the Primary Healthcare Centre at Kuyallo, Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State, kidnapping two nurses and an unspecified number of patients.
According to Musa Alhassan, one of the leaders of a local Vigilante group, the bandits initially targeted the nearby Government Day Secondary School, arriving around 9 am on Monday, September 9, 2024.
However, he explained that upon finding the school empty, the bandits turned their attention to the healthcare centre, located nearby.
“The bandits came to the school around 9 am, asking about the students, but when they found out that the school was empty, they went to the healthcare centre and started kidnapping people,” Alhassan said.
According to him, the bandits, who were seeking to abduct students, instead took two female nurses and several patients hostage, leaving the community in a state of panic.
“The exact number of patients kidnapped is still unknown,” he added.
An eyewitness told our correspondent that “the bandits came into the healthcare centre, wielding guns and machetes. They started dragging people out of the hospital, and we could not do anything to stop them.”
Our correspondent reports that the incident is the latest in a series of attacks by bandits in the state, highlighting the need for increased security measures to protect communities and healthcare facilities.
As of the time of filing this report, neither the Kaduna State Police Command nor the state government officials had confirmed the incident.
When contacted by our correspondent, the command’s Public Relations Officer, Mansir Hassan, didn’t respond to phone calls and a text message to his mobile number as of the time of filing this report.