KANO - Gunmen who attacked a train in northwest Nigeria and killed eight people have released a video of a bank executive who was among an unspecified number of passengers taken hostage during the ass
ault.
AFP could not independently verify the authenticity of the video but family members confirmed Ali-Hassan was released by the gunmen on Wednesday and that it was him in the video. The opening prayer in Arabic by one of the masked men is the same as in all the previous propaganda videos released by jihadist groups. The positioning of the gunmen with the hostage is also typical of jihadist videos.
One week after the train attack, the whereabouts of 168 passengers is still unknown, the Nigerian Railway Corporation said, though it is not clear how many may have returned home and not contacted officials.
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