Nigerian Rail Service Suspended After ‘Terrorists’ Attack on Train Carrying Nearly 1,000 Passengers

Nigerian Rail Service Suspended After ‘Terrorists’ Attack on Train Carrying Nearly 1,000 Passengers
A man walks past a train of the newly completed Abuja-Kaduna night railway line in Abuja, on July 21, 2016. Stringer/AFP via Getty Images
Lorenz Duchamps
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A group of suspected terrorist bandits attacked a passenger train headed to the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna from the capital Abuja late on Monday by detonating explosives on the rail track in order to trap the train, officials said.

One of the passengers also confirmed the bombing on social media, saying attackers destroyed the engines of the train after planting explosives and had surrounded the train, shooting sporadically.

Lorenz Duchamps
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