{"id":100453,"date":"2022-10-18T15:15:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T14:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=100453"},"modified":"2022-10-18T15:15:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T14:15:38","slug":"bandits-invade-hospital-kill-2-abduct-doctors-patients-in-niger-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/bandits-invade-hospital-kill-2-abduct-doctors-patients-in-niger-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandits invade hospital, kill 2, abduct doctors, patients in Niger State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">At least two persons have been shot dead,\u00a0 while others were abducted after armed bandits invaded the Abdulsalami Abubakar General Hospital, Gulu in Lapai Local Government Area of Niger State, on Monday night.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Eye witnesses recounted that among those abducted were a medical doctor, a pharmacist, nurses, as well as patients and their relations, even as identities of those killed have not been ascertained.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Other staff of\u00a0 the hospital kidnapped include, the Head, Clinical Services, simply identified as Dr. John, Head of Hematology, Usman Zabbo, and a staff member of medical lab, Awaisu Bida.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The wife of the Head of Nursing Services and his daughters, wife and a daughter of the Chief Pharmacist, and many other relations of the patients were also taken.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">There are speculations that the operation was a targeted attack to get health personnel to treat some of the injured bandits in the forest.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">One of the locals who didn\u2019t want his name in print, alleged that the bandits in their numbers, came into Gulu community around 2:30am to 3am and in the process, raided General Hospital.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He confirmed the killing of two people whose houses were directly opposite the hospital.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">No official statement has been released by the Niger State Police Command as at the time of writing this report.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least two persons have been shot dead,\u00a0 while others were abducted after armed bandits invaded the Abdulsalami Abubakar General Hospital, Gulu in Lapai Local Government Area of Niger State,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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