LAGOS: Thirty-one passengers were taken hostage after gunmen attacked a train station in south Nigeria’s Edo state, reported Xinhua, quoting a spokesperson for the state government on Sunday.
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’s 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.-Bernama