Barely 10 days after a train crushed a man to death in the Oshodi area of Lagos State, another yet-to-be-identified man was crushed to death by a moving train in the Ikeja area of the state on Monday.
It was gathered from the Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osayintolu, on Monday, that the incident happened in the early hours of the day.
According to the Permanent Secretary, the body of the victim was recovered by the agency’s response team and handed over to the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit for necessary action.
He said, “The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency activated its response team at 0828hrs in response to distress calls. On arrival at the incident scene at 0902hrs, LRT discovered the dead body of an adult male on the train tracks.
“Further investigations revealed that the adult male was reportedly hit by a moving train in the early hours of the morning.
“The agency’s response team recovered the body from the railway tracks and handed it to the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit. SEHMU has transferred the commodity to the morgue for further processing.” Punch
