The few health workers who survived the attack by gunmen
on polio vaccinators in Kano on Friday cheated death by lying down on the floor
and pretending to have been killed.
This was part of the revelations made by survivors
in interviews with our correspondents who visited them at Abdullahi Wase
Specialist Hospital and the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) in Kano at the
weekend.
Sunday Trust gathered that the gunmen did not only
shoot the health workers, they also set fire on them to ensure no survivors
were left.
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Nine female polio vaccinators lost their lives in
two separate shootings at health centres in Kano within an hour on Friday.
When our reporters visited the hospitals, the
survivors were too traumatised to talk.
Khadijah, a 22-year-old Economics graduate of
Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education, Kano said they all lay motionless as the
gunmen wetted the place with Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) and set fire to
ensure that there were no survivors.
This is the first time health workers in Kano have
been so hounded.
Such attacks said to be the handiwork of
anti-western style of living, Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnati Lidda’awati Wal Jihad
commonly called Boko Haram, have been against security agents and top public
officials.
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