{"id":93372,"date":"2022-03-29T17:25:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T16:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=93372"},"modified":"2022-03-29T17:25:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T16:25:25","slug":"abuja-kaduna-train-attack-why-many-passengers-cant-be-accounted-for-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abuja-kaduna-train-attack-why-many-passengers-cant-be-accounted-for-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja-Kaduna Train Attack: Why Many\u00a0 Passengers Can\u2019t Be Accounted For- Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1728646329338546777\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">A Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) staff aboard the Kaduna-bound train attacked Monday night says the corporation has yet to ascertain whether bandits kidnapped passengers as many fled into a bush.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe official said the passengers fled into the bush for safety when the incident occurred.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cNobody can ascertain whether passengers were kidnapped or not,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the pandemonium must have caused a lot of people to run into the bush to safeguard their lives.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThis is as some family members of passengers aboard the train worry about their fate.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nSpeaking at the Rigasa railway station in Kaduna on Tuesday, they said they had yet to establish contact 14 hours after the attack.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nMohammed Barau, a resident of the Ungwan Rimi area of Kaduna whose younger brother was among the passengers, said he was at the train station to have an update regarding the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe called his line several times without response until later his friend seated with him on the train picked and told us that my brother left his phone on the seat and that he did not know his whereabouts,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nAlso, Lami Gombo, a resident of Kudenden in Kaduna, said she had yet to hear from her brother, who was aboard the train.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cHis telephone lines are switched off; we have been to the Nigerian Army Reference Hospital but did not see him there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Other family members expressed the same feeling, adding that their minds were not at rest.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Kaduna-bound train, which left Abuja at 6:00 p.m., was attacked by bandits around 7:45 p.m., with just 15 minutes drive to arrive in Kaduna.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nWhen contacted for details about casualty figures, a KADSEMA official who did not want his name mentioned said they were still working on the details.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) staff aboard the Kaduna-bound train attacked Monday night says the corporation has yet to ascertain whether bandits kidnapped passengers as many fled into a bush.&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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