LAGOS, Jan 9 (NNN-NAN) – Thirty-one passengers were taken hostage, after gunmen attacked a train station in south Nigeria’s Edo state, a spokesperson for the government said, yesterday.
A group of gunmen broke into the Igueben train station on Saturday evening, firing shots sporadically in the air and kidnapping passengers, who were heading for Warri, a city in the neighbouring Delta state.
Initially 32 people were taken hostage and one managed to escape, Chris Nehikhare, the spokesperson, told reporters in the state capital, Benin City.
Security operatives had started combing the bushes around the station, in search of the fleeing gunmen and the kidnapped victims, said Nehikhare.
