An unidentified young man with
earphone on glued to his ears was on Wednesday killed by a passenger train at
Cappa area of Oshodi, Lagos.
A Correspondent of the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who was inside the train reports that the man was
standing on the rail track oblivious of the fast approaching train.
The NAN correspondent reports
that the Ogun-Lagos-bound mass transit train was leaving its Oshodi station to
Mushin when the accident occurred.
The train had as usual, sounded
its horn repeatedly as it was approaching the railway crossing at Ilupeju
Bye-pass for clearance of its track.
According to an eyewitness, the
man who had his earphone on was apparently carried away with either the call he
was receiving or listening to music.
“Obviously the man was not aware
of the approaching train even as it blasted its horn, perhaps because of the
earphone.
“Before he knew it, he was
already hit by the train and was not given any chance to escape.
“Immediately he was hit, the body was mangled as the train dragged it
underneath,’’ the eyewitness said.
NAN reports that people standing
by the rail track that saw the incident raised their hands over their heads in
a show of pity for the deceased.
“The man has suddenly and
unwittingly lost his life to sheer carelessness,’’ a passenger said.
NAN reports that it was not the
first time a moving train would crush to death people standing on the rail
track because of having their earphones on.
Among them was a lady in 2006,
killed at Shogunle GRA railway crossing, while another one was killed in 2007 at
Oshodi.
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