The terrorists who blew up rail tracks and attacked a train on the Abuja-Kaduna route on March 28, yesterday released four photos of their captives.
In the photos, 62 of the kidnapped victims are seen in four groups. The terrorists used clothes to block the background on the photographs as the abductees sat on a tarpaulin.
The first photo has 23 persons, including five children (two females and three males) and 18 women. Among them is the 85-year-old woman said to be diabetic.
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The second photo shows 17 men, including a foreigner.
The third photo shows six of the victims sitting, one of whom has a bandage wrapped on his right leg.
The fourth photo shows 16 people.
It is the third time the terrorists would release evidence that their captives are alive.
The other was a video showing victims begging the government to grant the terrorists’ demands.
It was reported after the attack that 68 captives were with the bandits, including 41 women, 22 men and five children.
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The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) is unsure of the exact number of those abducted.
Ali-Hassan, who is the only released captive released so far, had told those who visited him that they were subjected to five days of trekking from the attack scene to a forest in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State.
There were speculations that two expectant mothers among the victims, including a lady said to be due for a caesarean section (CS), were delivered of their babies, but this could not be independently confirmed.
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