BREAKING: Bandits storm church in Kaduna, kill doctor, abduct worshippers

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Bandits have attacked Christian worshippers at a church in Manini Tasha village, Kuriga Ward in Chukun local government area of Kaduna State, on Sunday morning.

One person, identified as a medical doctor, was reportedly killed while an unspecified number of worshippers were abducted by the attackers.

The bandits, who were heavily armed stormed the church and surrounded the worshippers at about 9am.

It was learnt that the bandits who came into the church heavily armed began to shoot sporadically at the worshipers, who scampered for safety in different directions.

Sources disclosed that one Dr. Zakariah Dogo Yaro, a medical Doctor with the Kaduna State Ministry of Health was shot dead and unspecified number of people kidnapped while so many worshipers sustained varying degrees of injuries.

The latest attack is coming on the heel of the abduction of Greenfield University students, a private institution in Kaduna, where three of the kidnapped students have been killed by bandits.

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