On 28 March, a group of armed men often referred to as bandits in media reports blew up the track on the Abuja-Kaduna train route and opened fire on passengers, killing eight people.
On Saturday, 11 June, the armed assailants who attacked a train in northwest Nigeria in March freed eleven of their hostages. The spokesman to the cleric acting as a mediator between the government and the attackers, Tukur Mamu, confirmed that six women and five men were released while 51 people were still captive.
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