The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) has suspended the train services on the Lagos, Abuja, and Ajaokuta routes over safety concerns.

The Managing Director of the NRC FIDET OKHIRIA confirmed this to newsmen adding that this followed a report of an attempted kidnapping of passengers that left the Ajaokuta Station by road on their way to Abuja.

According to him, the passengers and their vehicles were shot at in the process but he said they escaped from the attackers.

OKHIRIA explained that the passengers have been advised to use any of the adjacent stations in Itakpe (north) or Itogbo (south) until the security situation in the area improves.

The statement comes just hours after five more kidnapped passengers of the Kaduna-Abuja train were released by their abductors.