BBC is so pathetic! Describing a terrorist attack as a 'gang attack' is evil!

Abuja-Kaduna train attack: Passengers killed after Nigeria gang hits rail link - BBC

Seven passengers have died after gunmen attacked a busy train between Nigeria's capital, Abuja, and Kaduna city, hospital sources have told the BBC.

The gang mined the track forcing the train, carrying 970 passengers, to a stop on Monday evening.

Gunmen subsequently surrounded the carriages and opened fire, one passenger told the BBC.

An unknown number of passengers were abducted from the train, considered the safest way to get between the cities.

Kidnapping for ransom has become commonplace across Nigeria.

The Abuja-Kaduna highway is one of the most dangerous roads in the country as kidnappers have been known to have ambushed vehicles at several points along the expressway.

Over the last few years this has pushed many to avoid the 150km (93-mile) journey by road instead opting for the rail link, which opened in 2016. It is more expensive but considered safer as the trains have armed guards on board.

This is the second time the rail line between the cities has been targeted in the last six months, but is by far the most serious, says the BBC's Chris Ewokor in Abuja.

According to the BBC Hausa service, 22 people, who were injured in the attack on Monday evening, are being treated at a military hospital in Kaduna.

One woman working as a hospital volunteer in Kaduna told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme that the first-hand accounts she had heard were "scary" and "traumatising".

A railway worker told her he had manged to escape from the kidnappers by running away as they took him and "25 people into the forest" on foot.

Another person recounted that when she was shot "the bullet went through her knee" and that she had been saved by the military.

A senior security source told the AFP news agency that military personnel rushed to the scene.

"The attack has been repelled by the troops who deployed in time. The terrorists fled when the soldiers arrived. The train is bulletproof, this saved the passengers who lay still on the floor."

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has suspended operations along the route.

The governor of Kaduna state has also condemned the attack, describing it as a "terrorist" incident and sent his condolences to the families of the victims.

The rail line is a gateway for millions of people in north-western states who want to travel to Abuja and further south.

The authorities in Kaduna state say they are liaising with the NRC to find out where all the passengers are and who exactly is missing.

Armed gangs carrying out killings and kidnappings for ransom have continued to unleash violence, especially in northern Nigeria despite military bombardments of their hideouts.

Just last Saturday, they attacked Kaduna's international airport.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-60914481

Where is Oyiboupdate,the APC hired criminal who his accomplise ijelespeaks was deported from Turkey?
He has all of a sudden gone silent over the killing of Dr.Chinelo by his Buhari's terrorists footsoldiers. If there was any way he would have tagged the idiotic ragtag terrorists "ipob",he would have done that instantly.
The Buhari & Uzodimgba you are working for against Igbos will backfire someday soon.
You won't criticize your Buhari now since you care so much about Igbos but will hail soldiers burning down homes of innocent families and women in Southeast at any slightest false provocation.

Oyiboupdate,your cup will full very soon. Karma will feed you well. It's well

BBC and Fulani are like Father and son. The British bequeathed Nigeria to them just as an heir inherits his father's property

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colorsofrainbow:
Where is Oyiboupdate,the APC hired criminal who his accomplise was deported from Turkey?
He has all of a sudden gone silent over the killing of Dr.Chinelo by his Buhari's terrorists footsoldiers. If there was any way he would have tagged the idiotic ragtag terrorists "ipob",he would have done that instantly.
The Buhari & Uzodimgba you are working for against Igbos will backfire someday soon.
You won't criticize your Buhari now since you care so much about Igbos but will hail soldiers burning down homes of innocent families and women in Southeast at any slightest false provocation.

Oyiboupdate,your cup will full very soon. Karma will feed you well. It's well

He is busy editing pictures and videos to deceive his gullible members

You didn't know it's state policy of Britain to babysit the north? The north is their tool used in tying Nigeria down to perpetual backwardness. They won't want to speak against their tool.

See BBC know more than we Nigerians. BBC knows there is no terrorist here other than our wicked and evil Government. It's high time we start fighting for ourselves in this country. Laslas everybody go carry sticker.

Why is the Northern Elders forum, Arewa youths and other Northern groups keeping quiet? If IPOB cough in SE they will shiver and call Buhari. Stupid people we share country with.

What do you expect from them. After joining different cultures, tribes and religion together.

They never wanted Nigeria and most other countries they colonized to progress.

Bandits are remnant of the boko haram insurgents that were dispersed from camp zero in sambisa. This pathetic government chose to live in denial

Not surprised as it's obvious BMCs must have learnt their media-spinning skills from somewhere. Today, I'm very certain they were tutored by the BBC

Inhuman, callous, evil, wicked, distasteful, bad, awful, atrocious, Malicious, despicable, Gross, disgusting,

Which other word I wan use again,

Oh I forgot Terrible.

AfonjaEmir:
See What DSS said about IPOB...what a country !!

That tells you Nigeria is not 1 & can never be 1

Nigeria was designed to fail & that's why Britain merged human being with animal to be living together inside the same room

Terrorist from north are wrecking havoc in Kaduna but dss were busy chasing Igbo tagged ipob

Only a madman will be chasing rat while his house is on fire

Nonsense & Nigeria

This Train attack may be coordinated by ipob terrorists

Fanatics. The truth cannot be hidden for too long. Nigeria is an Important Briain-controlled entity friends. Neo-colonial masters till this day.

Yeye BBC

Hmmn.

BBC supports our suffering.

drmuchin:
BBC and Fulani are like Father and son. The British bequeathed Nigeria to them just as an heir inherits his father's property

Even the foreign media have been gagged from calling the criminal Fulani terrorist by their real name "terrorist"

Dem don chop full mouth

This killing was a setup, planned work, check the numbers of people killed are prominent people.

I hope they're all happy now, top politicians.

HedwigesMaduro:
You didn't know it's state policy of Britain to babysit the north? The north is their tool used in tying Nigeria down to perpetual backwardness. They won't want to speak against their tool.

Eggzactly. I wonder how UK sees itself as. a Christian nation, when their policies say otherwise. God will be the judge of us all, Shalom.

AfonjaEmir:
See What DSS said about IPOB...what a country !!

Earlier igbos understand that they don't have a place in the Zoo better for them. Let them stop deceiving themselves.

Nah them

BBC only waiting for what US will call the attackers so they can follow suit!


Asslicking UK. They're responsible for this union with the backward thinking Muslim called Nigeria!!!

Heheh