Kaduna train attack: controversy over passengers' manifest
More than 48 hours after terrorists attacked the Abuja-Kaduna train, Monday night, Nigerians are yet to know the number of passengers on board.
Recall that the attacked train, which left at least eight passengers dead and 41 injured, saw the disappearance of scores of passengers.
This is even as the terrorists, who went away with some of the passengers, have started calling their families to say their loved ones are with them.
Although the Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, said in a statement, Tuesday, that 398 passengers bought tickets for the trip, and that only 362 of the tickets were actually validated for the trip, initial reports on the attack, which claimed 970 passengers were on board the ill-fated train has not been refuted by the authorities. Consequently, families yet to find their loved ones on board have become anxious to get the manifest to ascertain the names, and number of persons who made the trip are in the dark as to the number of passengers on board the train at the time of the attack.
NRC disowns online passengers’ manifest.
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