[2][3] At around 7:45 pm, hundreds of passengers travelling northwards on their way to Nigeria's northwest were kidnapped in Katari,[4] Kaduna State, while others were killed and injured by bandits who bombed an Abuja-Kaduna train.
[19] At least eight people were killed, including Amin Mahmoud, a youth leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Chinelo Megafu Chinelo, a medical doctor, Tibile Mosugu, a rising lawyer and son of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, and Barrister Musa Lawal-Ozigi, secretary-general, Trade Union Congress, TUC.
[20][21] Megafu Chinelo, a doctor, was declared dead hours after she said on Twitter that she had been shot on the Kaduna-bound train.
[29] Government authorities later said that intelligence and investigations by security forces pointed to an "unholy handshake"[30] of bandits cooperating with insurgent jihadist groups such as Boko Haram that were suspected to have carried out the attack,[31][32] analyzing videos of hostages and statements by the attackers as evidence.
[33] University of Lagos academic John Barnett said that while he believed bandits had carried out the attack, "the use of explosives.... may point to some jihadist collaboration, perhaps with Ansaru elements.