The terrorists who attacked the Abuja –Kaduna bound train on March 28 yesterday released four photos of their captives.

 

 

In the photos, 62 of the kidnapped victims are seen in four groups.

 

 

 

The first photo has 23 persons, including five children (two females and three males) and 18 women.

 

Among them is the 85-year –old woman reported to be diabetic.

 

 

The second photo shows 17 men, including a foreigner.

 

 

 

The third photo shows six of the victims sitting, one of whom has a bandage wrapped on his right leg.

 

 

 

The fourth photo shows 16 people.

 

 

This is the third time the terrorists would release evidence that their captives are alive.

 

 

 

The first photo was released during the release of the Managing Director of the Bank of Agriculture, Alwan  Ali-Hassan.

 

 

 

The other was a video showing victims begging the government to grant the terrorists ‘ demands.

 

 

 

It was reported after the attack that 68 captives were with the bandits, including 41 women, 22 men, and five children.

 

The Nigerian Railway  Corporation(NRC) is unsure of the exact number of those abducted.

 

 

 

The terrorists used clothes to block the background of the photographs as the abductees sat on a tarpaulin.

 

 

 

They blew up rail tracks on the Abuja-Kaduna route during the attack, killing eight passengers. No fewer than 41 people were injured.

 

 

 

Al- Hassan the only lucky captive who was released so far,  had told those who visited him that they were subjected to five days of trekking from the attack scene to a forest in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State.

 

 

 

A victim’s relative who visited Alib –Hassan had said:’’He assured us that all our loved ones were fine.

 

 

 

‘’He said,’’ after being driven from the scene of the attack for several kilometers into the bush, the bandits dropped them and made them trek from that point.

 

 

 

‘’According to him. ‘’they had stopovers at several transit camps of the bandits; at every point, they would think they had gotten to their destination, but they would just command them to start trekking again.

 

 

He said,’’ they moved for five days before they arrived at the terrorists’ main camp somewhere in the forest around Shiroro Local Government  Area of Niger State.

 

 

 

 

 

He also told us that ‘’the terrorists had medical personnel and they brought them to the camp to treat victims who got injured either from the scene of the attack or during the journey to the terrorist camp’’.

 

 

 

There were speculations that two expectant mothers among the victims, including a lady, said to be due for a cesarean section (CS), were delivered of their babies, but this could not be independently confirmed.

 

 

However, President Buhari had made a pronouncement that the security agencies must secure the release of all the abducted people in captivity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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