A yet-to-be-identified man on Monday morning was tragically killed after being struck by a moving train around the Ikeja area of Lagos State.
The Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA),Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, confirmed the development, stating that the agency received a distress call at 8:28 a.m.
Oke-Osanyintolu added that the agency’s response team recovered the body, bagged it, and handed it over to the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit (SEHMU) for transport to the morgue.
Oke-Osanyintolu said in a statement, “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 laying 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,” he added.
The incident is coming less then two weeks after a 50-year-old man, identified as Emmanuel, was killed by a moving train near the Arena Shopping Mall in the Oshodi area.