Kaduna train attack: Police deny attack, say story baseless

Kaduna State Police Command has debunked the media reports that the Abuja-Kaduna train was attacked on Thursday along Katari by suspected kidnappers.

The purported attack according to the police was baseless and a figment of the writers’ imagination.

In a telephone interview with Tribune Online on Thursday the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Yakubu Sabo, debunked the rumour of the attack.

“When I contacted the management of the Railway Station, I was told that such rumour was baseless,” he added.

Earlier, the news of the attack was reported by a national daily (not the Tribune).

According to the report, “armed men suspected to be kidnappers Thursday morning attacked an Abuja-bound train with guns.

According to the report, the train had left the Rigassa train station at around 10:00 a.m. and was attacked a few kilometres to Katari, about seventy kilometres to Abuja.

A passenger on the train reportedly told the national daily that the train came under what he called “ballistic projectiles attack” but no passenger was hurt in the incidence.