'Elements of Boko Haram' Behind Attack on Train

A train departs from Rigasa station in Kaduna, Nigeria [File: TJ Benson/Al Jazeera]

HT RoP : Nigeria: Families of missing train passengers bemoan govt silence. Relatives of the abducted passengers say government inefficiency led to the attack and is delaying rescue efforts.

Almost two weeks after an attack on a Nigerian passenger train killed eight people and more than 150 remain missing, families say they are yet to get updates from the Nigerian government.

On March 28, suspected bandits detonated a bomb on the tracks and opened fire on the train just outside the northwest city of Kaduna, stopping the train on its tracks. As many as 168 passengers remain missing and are believed to have been abducted by the armed group.

Families of abducted passengers say they have been in anguish since and accuse the Nigerian government of neglect and an information blackout. “An answer is all we have always wanted,” Amriah Sani* who asked for her real name to be withheld to avoid endangering the safety of her two family members in captivity, told Al Jazeera.

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