{"id":130817,"date":"2024-09-13T11:13:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T10:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-confirm-attack-in-katsina-hospital"},"modified":"2024-09-13T12:15:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T11:15:08","slug":"police-confirm-attack-in-katsina-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-confirm-attack-in-katsina-hospital","title":{"rendered":"Police confirm attack in Katsina hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Katsina State Police Command has confirmed an attack on Kurfi General Hospital in Kurfi local government area of the state by bandits.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital was invaded by the daredevil terrorists on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>ASP Abubakar Sadiq Aliyu, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Katsina State command confirmed the incident on Friday but failed to give details.<\/p>\n<p>The PPR, who stated that the nature of the attack is yet to be uncovered, said the \u201cinvestigation is already ongoing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>However, our correspondent gathered that a security guard was shot dead by the assailants while about four women were whisked to an unknown destination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Katsina State Police Command has confirmed an attack on Kurfi General Hospital in Kurfi local government area of the state by bandits. The hospital was invaded by the daredevil terrorists on Thursday. ASP Abubakar Sadiq Aliyu, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Katsina State command confirmed the incident on Friday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":130816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[225,254,165],"class_list":["post-130817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-katsina","tag-nigeria","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police confirm attack in Katsina hospital - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Katsina State Police Command has confirmed an attack on Kurfi General Hospital in Kurfi local government area of the ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-confirm-attack-in-katsina-hospital\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police confirm attack in Katsina hospital\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Katsina State Police Command has confirmed an attack on Kurfi General Hospital in Kurfi local government area of the ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-confirm-attack-in-katsina-hospital\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-09-13T10:13:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-13T11:15:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/sm_1726213491.18512.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"719\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-confirm-attack-in-katsina-hospital#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-confirm-attack-in-katsina-hospital\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Police confirm attack in Katsina hospital\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-09-13T10:13:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-09-13T11:15:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-confirm-attack-in-katsina-hospital\"},\"wordCount\":120,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-confirm-attack-in-katsina-hospital#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/sm_1726213491.18512.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Katsina\",\"Nigeria\",\"Police\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-confirm-attack-in-katsina-hospital#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-confirm-attack-in-katsina-hospital\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-confirm-attack-in-katsina-hospital\",\"name\":\"Police confirm attack in Katsina hospital - 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