A staff of the Nigeria Railway Corporation in Kaduna who pleaded anonymity, has said that there was no gunmen attack on the Abuja-Kaduna bound train as was reported by some social media earlier today, January 2.
This is even as the Kaduna Police Command Spokesman, DSP Yakubu Sabo Abubakar denied the report of gunmen attack.
According to the staff who spoke to our reporter in confidence, the train was stoned by under-aged bystanders close to villages where there are substations who mostly hang around to have a look at the train.
This was even as one of the passengers also confirmed that the stoning was carried out by those he called “naughty children.
He said that the train was close to Jere junction when they heard the bang on the window.
He said that on many occasions, the corporation changed window glasses of the train as a result of stoning by underage bystanders in villages or rail crossing.
‘’We have been warning underaged children in most of these areas to desist from throwing pebbles at train whenever they come out to have a view of a passing train.
“The situation was what some people termed to be attacked by gunmen, which the corporation is trying to sensitize the youth to desist from,” said the staff.
