Train Crushes Man To Death In Oshodi, Lagos
By Folorunsho Atta
There was pandemonium in Lagos on Friday when a trader was crushed by a Lagos-Ibadan train around Oshodi, Lagos.
The incident happened around 2pm in front of Arena Shopping Complex, Oshodi.
Eyewitnesses said the middle-aged man was urinating while standing in the middle of the rail tracks, with his two ears covered with an earpiece.
A source said that despite the heavy horn of the train and passers-by shouting to warn the man, he did not hear the alarm.
Sympathetic passers-by who gathered around the dead body said the man killed himself.
Another witness identified the dead man as a trader who owned a shop at a shopping complex called Moyosore.
He said the deceased was chatting with three other persons who heard the honking of the train and ran away from the tracks.
Efforts were made to contact the deceased family while Police were also contacted to evacuate the body.
Reports said cases of train crushing people to death have become a recurring incident due to high prevalence of human activities on the railway corridors within the Lagos axis.
In areas like Agbado, Agege, Ikeja, Oshodi, traders often display their wares on the rail tracks while quickly packing the wares as soon as a train approaches, thereby endangering their lives.
A source in the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) who confirmed the train accident, said the identity of the victim had not yet been figured out as at the time of filing the report.
Also, the Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Lagos Police Command, Ben Hundeyin, was to react to the report as at press time.
