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The train left Abuja's Idu station at 6 pm and was scheduled to arrive in Kaduna's Rigasa train station by 8 pm. [9] [10] According to eyewitness accounts, the train was bombed twice before the armed bandits opened fire at the passengers. [11] Sixty-two passengers were abducted in the attack. [12]
Rigasa Railway Station has a railway leading to the federal capital of Nigeria, Abuja. [6] [7] [8] In March 28, 2022, the train while departing from Rigasa Railway Station to Abuja was attacked by terrorists, kidnapping the hostages which caused a temporary closure. [9] [10] [11]
A bomb planted in a first-class compartment exploded on the Metropolitan Railway near Aldersgate St. station. The first fatal terrorist attack against what is now the London Underground, it is one of a series of bombings of the Underground and other London landmarks. [1] Fenians: Fenian dynamite campaign: Lincoln, Nebraska, United States 9 ...
The railway was also intended to promote trade between Nigeria and other countries, making the train port trade a major part of Nigeria's colonial economy. The railway network expanded over the next few decades, and by the time Nigeria gained independence in 1960, there were over 3,000 kilometers of railway lines in the country. [2]
Kaduna is an important junction point on the existing Cape gauge railway network, where a branch line departs the Lagos–Nguru line for Kafanchan, on the Port Harcourt–Maiduguri Railway. The construction of the Abuja–Kaduna segment cost $876 million, consisting of $500 million in loans from the Exim Bank of China and the balance coming ...
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Jammu–Sialkot Railway, 43 kilometer broad gauge railway, closed in 1947. Samasata–Amruka Branch Line, 257 kilometer broad gauge railway, closed in 2011 [2] Shahdara Bagh–Chak Amru Branch Line, 52 kilometer section between Narowal Junction and Chak Amru closed. Khyber Pass Railway, 50 kilometer broad gauge railway, closed in 2006.
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