Nigerian gunmen who staged a deadly attack on a busy train last week have released one of the captives they abducted during the incident.
Some 168 people are missing and it is not clear how many of them were kidnapped for ransom – some may have gone home without telling the authorities.
Family sources have confirmed to the BBC that Alwan Hassan, the head of Nigeria’s Bank of Agriculture, was released on Wednesday evening.
The banker in his 60’s was the first captive to be freed.
In a video message, the gunmen said they released Mr Hassan because they “pity’’ him given his ‘”old age, the passionate pleas he made and in the spirit of Ramadan’’. END