NewsBombed Train: NRC Confirms 14 More Safe Passengers, 22 Missing

Bombed Train: NRC Confirms 14 More Safe Passengers, 22 Missing

April 04, (THEWILL) – The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has confirmed the safety of 14 more passengers on board the AK9 train on Monday, March 28, bringing the total safe passengers to 186.

The NRC’s Managing Director, Fidet Okhiria, confirmed this in a statement on Sunday

According to Okhiria, “The statement is aimed at updating Nigerians on the ongoing development regarding the clearing of the incident site (recovery of the rolling stock, repairs of the track) and status of Passengers that were on-board the AK9 train on Monday, March 28.

“Of the 362 validated passengers on board the attacked AK9 train service on March 28, 186 persons on the manifest are confirmed to be safe and at their various homes (additional 14 persons confirmed safe today).”

The NRC boss further said that 51 phone numbers on the manifest are either switched off or not reachable since Tuesday morning and 35 phone numbers on the manifest are ringing, but no response from the other end.

He stated that 60 phone numbers on the manifest when called, response non-existent, 22 persons are reported missing by their relatives and eight persons confirmed dead.

According to Okhiria,Two coaches (SP 00016 and SP 00017) earlier re-railed, have safely been moved to Rigasa Station.

“This brings the total number of recovered Coaches safely moved to NRC Stations to seven.

“Intensive work continues on track repairs. More concrete Sleepers were moved to site, while some sections of twisted tracks were straightened.

“We remain grateful to the security agencies for all the support. We are very appreciative of the Squadron Commander MOPOL 1 Kaduna visit to the accident site today.

“The NRC will continue to update the general public of developments to prevent misleading information and falsehood”, he added.

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