{"id":1419732,"date":"2022-04-05T11:14:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T15:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1419732"},"modified":"2022-04-05T11:14:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T15:14:57","slug":"nigeria-168-people-unaccounted-for-one-week-after-train-terror-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nigeria-168-people-unaccounted-for-one-week-after-train-terror-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: 168 People Unaccounted for One Week after Train Terror Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnigeria-168-people-unaccounted-for-one-week-after-train-terror-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1419732&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">At least 168 passengers of a Nigerian train targeted in a terror attack last week as it traveled from Nigeria\u2019s national capital region, Abuja, to Kaduna state, \u201chave yet to be accounted for,\u201d Nigeria\u2019s Premium Times online newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/headlines\/521738-one-week-after-kaduna-train-attack-168-passengers-still-unaccounted-for-nrc.html\">reported<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) recently said \u201cits manifest showed that there were 362 passengers on board\u201d the train in question, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2022\/03\/30\/nigeria-terror-spree-targets-airport-trains-priests\/\">derailed<\/a>\u00a0by unidentified terrorists on March 28.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMany Nigerians, however, believe the [passenger] figures are much higher due to the fraud and manipulations that go on at the train stations,\u201d the Premium Times noted of the NRC\u2019s allegedly corrupt management of the state-owned rail line.<\/p>\n<p>The NRC said on April 3 it had \u201cconfirmed the safety of 14 more passengers on board the train, bringing the total number of safe passengers to 186.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf the remaining 176 passengers, eight have been confirmed dead, while the families of 22 passengers have formally declared them missing. This indicates that a total of 168 passengers have yet to be accounted for, including the 22 declared missing by their families,\u201d according to the Premium Times.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt is not yet clear if all the 168 were kidnapped by the attackers or have just not been accounted for one week after the incident,\u201d the online publication noted.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s <em>This Day<\/em> newspaper reported on March 29 that the Abuja-Kaduna rail line <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisdaylive.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/29\/48-hours-after-attacking-kaduna-airport-terrorists-blow-up-abuja-kaduna-train\/\">carried<\/a> 970 passengers at the time of its attack on March 28.<\/p>\n<p>A group of unidentified terrorists \u201cused explosives to first blow up the rail track before opening fire on the train,\u201d NRC Chief Executive Fidet Okhiria <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/29\/world\/africa\/nigeria-train-gunmen.html\">told<\/a> reporters on March 29, as quoted by the Associated Press (AP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people are also feared to have been abducted,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey bombed the track and started exchanging fire with the security inside the train,\u201d a survivor of the attack named Abdulwadud Ahmad told the AP on March 29. \u201cThey subdued the security, then came into the train and kidnapped a lot of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s train attack last week was one of three major terror incidents that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2022\/04\/01\/collapsing-nigeria-mulls-trade-deals-russia-rubles\/\">occurred<\/a> within a 48-hour time span from March 26 to March 28. Unidentified assailants targeted the major civilian rail line between Abuja and the northern city of Kaduna on March 28, just two days after a group of terrorists attacked Kaduna\u2019s airport on March 26, killing one person and injuring several others. Another group of militants raided a Christian village in Niger state\u2019s Munya region on March 27, subsequently abducting the local priest.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria has suffered from regular terror attacks for several years, most of which have been attributed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/boko-haram\/\">Boko Haram<\/a>. The jihadist terror group known as Boko Haram established itself in northeastern Nigeria around 2009 and soon made international headlines for perpetrating mass abductions and massacres. The organization has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/12\/23\/interpol-terrorists-are-using-coronavirus-pandemic-increase-power-influence\/\">grown<\/a> stronger over the past two years, with reports suggesting Boko Haram has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theafricareport.com\/83757\/nigeria-on-high-alert-as-boko-haram-approaches-abuja\/\">inched<\/a> closer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/africarenewal\/news\/boko-haram-violence-affront-humanity-ban-declares-reaffirms-un-support-nigerian-government\">Abuja<\/a>, Nigeria\u2019s centrally-located national capital, in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Reports from local Nigerian news outlets on April 4 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2022\/04\/terrorists-threaten-to-sink-nigeria-as-if-theres-no-soldiers-abbas-guber-aspirant\/\">suggested<\/a> Nigeria\u2019s terror spree last week continued unabated in the ensuing days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwelve members of the Irigwe ethnic group were reportedly killed while 19 cattle belonging to Fulani herders were on Saturday night [April 2] shot dead in separate attacks in the villages of Bassa Local Government Area of [Nigeria\u2019s] Plateau State,\u201d the <em>Daily Trust<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailytrust.com\/12-persons-19-cattle-killed-in-plateau-attacks\">reported<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuspected armed bandits, Sunday night [April 3], invaded Tsafe town, the council headquarters of Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State, killing many people,\u201d the Premium Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/headlines\/521726-bandits-invade-zamfara-town-kill-many-including-commissioners-son.html\">reported<\/a> on April 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 168 passengers of a Nigerian train targeted in a terror attack last week as it traveled from Nigeria\u2019s national capital region, Abuja, to Kaduna state, \u201chave yet to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}