Three health workers abducted in Nasarawa

Gunmen yesterday kidnapped three officials of the Nasarawa State Primary Health Care Development Agency (NSPHCDA), on Nasarawa-Toto road.

Police spokesman Mr. Kennedy Idrisu, who confirmed the incident, said the three officials were travelling in a white Toyota Hilux van when the gunmen pounced on them at Bugan-Gwari village, about noon.

“The abductors seized the workers and took them to an unknown destination,” he told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Lafia.

Idrisu said the victims were on an official assignment from Lafia to Gadabuke in Toto Local Government, when they were seized by the gunmen.