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Abuja-Kaduna train was not attacked – NRC
The Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation [NRC], Engr Fidet Okhiria, has denied that gunmen attacked the Abuja-Kaduna train on Thursday morning.
Reports had earlier today circulated that armed men, suspected to be kidnappers, had attacked the Abuja bound train with guns and other projectiles.
The train, which left the Rigassa train station in Kaduna at around 10 am was reportedly attacked a few kilometers to Katari, about 70 kilometres to Abuja.
But Okhiria has denied the incident.
“This news was not correct,” Okhiria’s terse statement said.
Okhiria said he had been inundated with calls since the news went viral on social media.
Quoting Police sources, Okhiria said what happened was that a stone was thrown at the train by some boys, which according to him only affected the window glass of coach SP4.
The further stated that the situation was promptly arrested by police escorts on the train who restored calm before the train continued its journey and passengers disembarked peacefully at the Idu Station in Abuja without any other incident.
Okhiria assures train passengers of their safety even as he said investigation still continues into the cause of the Katari incident with a view to dousing the fears of the commuting public who have come to see the train as very good, reliable and safer alternative for commuting between Abuja and Kaduna as the Police continues their onslaught to dislodge the road of kidnappers who have turned the Abuja-Kaduna road into a nightmare for travellers.
“We are assuring train passengers of their safety. The trains remain the safest and cheapest alternative to the road mode,” Okhiria further stated.
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