Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has confirmed that 14 additional passengers on the attacked Abuja-Kaduna train are safe.
Gatekeepers News reports that NRC in an update has confirmed that the total number of safe passengers on the attacked Abuja-Kaduna train has risen to 186.
The Managing Director of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Fidet Okhiria disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday.
Okhiria said, ”The statement is aimed at updating Nigerians on the ongoing development regarding the clearing of the incident site (recovery of the rolling stock, repairs of the track) and status of Passengers that were on board the AK9 train of Monday, March 28.
”Of the 362 validated passengers on board the attacked AK9 train service on March 28, 186 persons on the manifest are confirmed to be safe and at their various homes (additional 14 persons confirmed safe today).’’
According to the NRC boss, 51 phone numbers on the manifest are either switched off or are not reachable since Tuesday morning, while 35 phone numbers on the manifest are ringing, but no response from the other end.
Okhiria further disclosed that 2 coaches (SP 00016 and SP 00017) earlier re-railed have been safely moved to Rigasa Station.
He said, ”This brings the total number of recovered Coaches and safely moved to NRC Stations to be seven. Intensive work continues on track repairs. More concrete Sleepers were moved to the site while some sections of twisted tracks have been straightened.
”We remain grateful to the security agencies for all the support. We are very appreciative of the Squadron Commander MOPOL 1 Kaduna visit to the accident site today.
”The NRC will continue to update the general public of developments to prevent misleading information and falsehood.’’
On March 28, Gatekeepers News reported that some terrorists attacked an Abuja-Kaduna train with many passengers on board, killing about 8 people, leaving dozens injured, while some others are suspected to have been kidnapped by the bandits.
