Kaduna-Abuja train attack victim recounts experience to Gov. El-Rufai
A victim of the recent Abuja-Kaduna train terrorists attack who managed to escape from his abductors has narrated his ordeal to Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State.
The victim spoke from the sickbed when Governor El-Rufai visited wounded passengers receiving treatment in the hospital.Narrating his ordeal, he said, “The bandits abducted us from the train and then ordered us to trek towards a hill. They did not carry torch lights as we had to rely on phone lights.
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“There was an elderly woman who could not walk and a man who had sustained a bullet wound among us. The man’s clothes were soaked in blood, while the elderly woman was with her daughter”.
“The bandits instructed the elderly woman to stay behind, but her daughter tried to protest. The bandits threatened to kill the lady if she refused to follow them. They left the elderly woman behind, and we followed the bandits blindly until we found a cattle route.
“I managed to escape after one of the bandits guarding us left to inquire about other members. They chased me, and I fell inside a ditch while fleeing. Fortunately, they did not find me in the ditch”. He said.