According to an eye witness the bandits came in the midnight at about 2:00AM 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”.
The eye witness added that the bandits killed a former medical personnel who lives opposite the hospital and 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,” Mohammed added.
Those kidnapped includes the head of Peri Op and his wife; the Head of clinical, Dr. John; the Head of hematology, Usman Zabbo; the wife of the head of nursing and his two daughters; the head of medical laboratory; wife and daughter of the chief pharmacist 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.
He said “The recent attack and killing of some persons at Gulu General Hospital and the abduction of unspecified numbers of innocent people including medical personnel are callous, inhuman and condemnable.
“We are deeply concerned about the recent rise in armed banditry and kidnappings in Gulu communities when we are rejoicing and consolidating in the successes so far recorded in other affected areas, but as a responsible government we’ll not rest on our oars until we triumph over evil.”
Bello 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.
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