Man crushed to de@th by train at Ikeja station

In a tragic incident on Monday, an unidentified man was struck and killed by a moving train along the railway tracks near Iyana-Ipaja at the Ikeja train station in Lagos State.

Dr. Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu, the Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), confirmed the incident in a statement.

According to Oke-Osanyintolu, the victim was hit in the early hours of the morning, and the body has been transferred to the morgue for further investigation and processing.

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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.”