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Latest news reaching TheNewsGuru.com indicates that a combined security team of the Armed Forces sent on a rescue mission to the trapped passengers of the bombed Abuja to Kaduna train may have gained the upper hand against the terrorists.
Though no official confirmation has been made, some eye-witness claim the passengers estimated to be about 970 may have been rescued.
According to these reports, the security operatives overpowered the group of suspected terrorists who blew off the rail track after a heavy exchange of gunfire.
The terrorists blew off the rail track between Rijana and Katari in Kaduna State and surrounded the train shooting sporadically into the air before the combined security forces launched the rescue and overpowered them.
The Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation in an AriseTv interview moments ago confirmed the initial terrorists attack on the Kaduna bound train.
According to Anas Iro Danmusa, “Alhamdulillah! The army are with us. We are safe!!!”