Passengers safe as Abuja-Kaduna train derails – NRC

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has said all passengers on a train involved in a “minor derailment” at the Jere station in Kaduna State on Sunday are safe.

It said the train services between Kaduna-Rigasa and Idu-Abuja will continue as scheduled.

In a statement on Sunday, the NRC Deputy Director of Public Relations, Yakubu Mahmood, said the accident occurred about an hour after the train departed from Kaduna at 8:05 a.m. The derailment caused three carriages to go off the tracks.

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