A medical professional simply identified as Dr Chinelo Megafu called for the support of Nigerians in prayers after she was shot in the Kaduna train attack on Monday.
“I’m in the train, I have been shot. please pray for me”, she wrote on Twitter.
The reactions that followed were quite bewildering as many didn’t believe her. Eventually, Chinelo died from the gunshot injuries and Twitter Nigeria is thrown into a mourning state.
https://twitter.com/DrOlufunmilayo/status/1508710421380927492
Zaeeem replied to Chinelo saying:
Does that tweet make sense to you? Dem shoot you but you still get time to tweet.. think am now
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Chinelo Megafu is a graduate of Dentistry from the University of Port Harcourt. She was on a passenger train conveying over 970 passengers that got attacked by suspected terrorists between Rijana and Katari in Kaduna State, yesterday.
Chinelo died from gunshot injuries sustained during the sporadic shootings by the armed men.
Survivor account
A passenger, who survived the attack, told journalists on phone that while in transit, “we heard a loud bang. A bomb exploded.”
He recalled that “the earth shook and within the twinkle of an eye, it was gunshots everywhere.”
According to him, the passengers in the train who were about a thousand, fell on each other when the train derailed.
“The terrorists surrounded the coaches and shot sporadically.
“Many were wounded. Some were hit by bullets as the terrorists closed in, trying to infiltrate the coaches.
“As the confusion heightened, many ran into the bushes on both sides of the track. It was by the will of Allah that I survived,” he said.
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