Kaduna: It emerged on Sunday that Gunmen had released 11 passengers who were abducted during a train attack in northern Nigeria at the end of March, a government minister said. Gbemisola Saraki, the minister of state for transportation, stated that the government was working to ensure all the kidnapped passengers were released. The freed passengers were taken to a hospital in Abuja. Saraki did not say how and where they were released, or if the ransom was paid.

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