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Just in: Security forces rescue six victims of Edo train station attack

Four children are among six people rescued by security agents two days after they were abducted by gunmen that attacked Edo train station.

The Edo State Government announced the development in a statement on Monday.

The rescued victims were identified as a 65-year-old man, a nursing mother with her baby, a six-year-old girl, and two siblings aged two and five years old, respectively.

Security forces, assisted by local hunters, have launched a search-and-rescue operation for the victims shortly after news broke about the attack and the kidnap.

Last Saturday, a large number of gunmen, armed with AK-47s, invaded the Ekehen train station in Igueben, an Edo community, firing several shots in the air before seizing the travellers and some railway personnel and taking them into the forest.

Some of those who managed to flee reportedly sustained bullet wounds.

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