Passengers board a light rail
train of Nigerian Railway Corporation at Oshodi Terminal in Lagos, AFP PHOTO /
PIUS UTOMI EKPEI
The cargo section of a passenger
train travelling from Lagos to Kano on Saturday got detached from the main body
and later derailed in Osogbo, Osun state. Mechanical fault was suspected.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
learnt that the three wagons attached to the end of the passenger train got
detached from the rest of the coaches at Ifon area of Osun at about 1:45am.
The pilotless wagons lumbered to
the interchange at the terminus around Old Garage area in Osogbo where the
wheels got off the track and the wagons tumbled.
A witness, Mr Biodun
Opatoyinbi told NAN that only one Mr Yakubu popularly called Baba Ibeji, a
train conductor was in the cargo area. He was unhurt.
Opatoyinbo said, the train driver was later stopped at Offa in
Kwara State.
He said a man who attempted to offload the goods in the stranded
wagons has been arrested and detained by the Nigerian Railway corporation
policemen .
Mrs Iyabo Ogundele also told NAN that the train conductor had been
taken to the hospital for proper medical checkup. Ogundele said a building
close to the rail track at the interchange terminal was also damaged. An
official of the NRC from Ibadan declined comments when approached.
The Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil
Defence Corps , Mr Babawale Afolabi, told NAN that NSCDC officers were keeping
watch over the three wagons.
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