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There was pandemonium in Lagos on Friday when a dealer was knocked down by a Lagos-Ibadan prepare round Oshodi Lagos.
The incident occurred round 2pm with sympathisers and passers-by thronging the world.
Eyewitnesses mentioned the dealer was crushed to dying in entrance of Area Procuring Advanced, Oshodi.
The center-aged man was mentioned to be urinating whereas standing on the center of the rail tracks, with an earpiece on his two ears.
Witness advised out reporter that regardless of the heavy horn of the prepare and passers-by shouting to warn the person, he couldn’t hear because of his earpiece.
Sympathetic passers-by who gathered across the useless physique, mentioned the person killed himself.
One other witness recognized the useless man as a dealer who has a store at a procuring complicated known as Moyosore.
He mentioned the deceased was chatting on the telephone with three different folks transferring on the railway tracks, however the three others heard Prepare horn and shortly ran away.
The deceased useless physique was nonetheless mendacity on the bottom in entrance of his closed store, whereas there have been frantic efforts to achieve his household.
Sources mentioned police had been known as upon to evacuate the corpse whereas efforts had been ongoing to contact the household.
Every day Belief studies that circumstances of prepare pulling down folks have change into a recurring decimal because of excessive prevalence of human actions on the prepare hall inside the Lagos axis.
In areas like Agbado, Agege, Ikeja, Oshodi, merchants typically show their wares on the rail tracks whereas shortly packing the wares as quickly as a prepare approaches thereby endangering their lives.
A supply within the Nigerian Railway Company (NRC) who confirmed the prepare accident to our correspondent mentioned the id of the sufferer had not been recognized.
Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Lagos Police Command, Ben Hundeyin was but to reply to our correspondent’s enquiry on the incident as of press time.
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