MAN CRUSHED TO DEATH BY MOVING TRAIN IN LAGOS
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In a tragic incident, an unidentified man was crushed to death by a moving train at Ikeja train station in Lagos on Monday October 21, 2024. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) confirmed the incident in an official statement.
The victim was struck by the train in the early hours of the day, according to Dr. Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu, the Permanent Secretary of LASEMA. The tragic accident occurred along the railway tracks heading towards Iyana-Ipaja.
Dr. Oke-Osanyintolu stated that LASEMA’s Eagle Response Team was activated following distress calls made to their 767/112 Toll-Free lines. The team was deployed from Cappa Base and arrived at the scene shortly after the report was made.
Upon arrival, emergency responders found the lifeless body of the adult male on the railway track. The body has been transferred to the morgue for further processing, Oke-Osanyintolu confirmed.
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, in response to distress calls via the 767/112 Toll-Free lines at 0828hrs, activated the Eagle Response Team from Cappa Base.
The statement partly reads, “The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, in response to distress calls via the 767/112 Toll-Free lines at 0828hrs, and activated the Eagle Response Team from Cappa Base.
“On arrival of the Eagle response team at the incident scene by 0902hrs, LRT discovered the body of an adult male lying dead on the railway track.
“Further investigations by the Eagle Response Team revealed that the adult male was reportedly hit by a moving train in the early hours of the day.
“Unfortunately, an unidentified adult male lost his life to the incident.
“The Agency’s response team recovered the body from the railway tracks. LRT bagged the commodity and handed it over to the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit, SEHMU.
“SEHMU has transferred the commodity to the morgue for further processing.”
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