Kaduna Train Attack: How Dr Chinelo Died; Eye Witness Account; Airline, NRC Suspend Operations

By Gideon Njoku

She was young. She was beautiful. She was brilliant. She was a Medical Doctor. And had a very rosy before her. But all that was cut short in one mad moment in a country which insecurity problems have become very frightening.

She was identified  as  Dr. Chinelo Megafu. But Dr  Megafu lies stone dead in a mortuary in Kaduna , a victim of the unprecedented attack on an Abuja-Kaduna bound Train in the evening of Monday, March 28, 2022.

She had boarded the ill-fated Train from Abuja to Kaduna along with over 900 others. When the bomb planted along the railway track exploded, demobilised and damaged Train,  followed by gun shot attacks on the frightened passengers, Dr Chinelo escaped into the bush. But he was hit by bullets fired by the devil’s.

Bleeding badly, and knowing the implications, she posted an SOS, pleading for her life.

Perhaps, she was either not taken seriously, or help was too late in coming. She bled to death. “I have been shot, pray for me”, she tweeted before he died.

Meanwhile, an eye witness to the attack posted the following account of the tragedy and happened.

“It happened at 8.06pm.

Explosives planted on the rail track.

“On contacting the explosives, the train head passed through,  but two coaches derailed and the train stopped.

“Immediately, the terrorists entered and started shooting sporadically speaking in hausa language ‘Sauka’, meaning Come down.

“The police and military operatives in the train confronted them until they ran our of bullets and they equally laid down.

“Many people were killed inside the coaches while those trying to run away were equally shot and killed.

“The terrorists took many away as kidnap victims.

“After the atmosphere calmed down, the military and police operatives arrived and rescued the survivors .

“The survivors were made to treck to where rescue buses provided by the military parked, and ferried to Kaduna. The buses arrived Kaduna a little past 3am.

“Ambulances were seen packing dead bodies and those with bullet wounds.”

As a consequence, the Nigeria Railway Corporation,  NRC, has temporarily suspended its Abuja-Kaduna  services. And so has Azman Airline which Kaduna-Abuja aircraft was prevented from taking off on March 26 when terrorists invaded the Kaduna International Airport.