Lagos Train Accident: Efforts Ongoing To Save Trapped Passengers

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Efforts are ongoing to save several persons, reported trapped in a train accident that occured around Ashade Ram Market in Agege area of Lagos State.

It was gathered that the accident happened around at 7:15am, with several persons trapped.

According to updates from the Lagos State Emergency Agency (LASEMA), the train moving enroute ebute metta via oshodi from iju with full capacity passengers derailed from its tracks.

“Further investigation revealed that the train derailed as a result of faulty tracks at the level crossing which has been reported by LASTMA men in the area and was noted for pending engineering works tonight. No life was lost but information gathered at the scene from the bystanders has it that the wounded victims were rushed to nearby hospitals for medical first aid,” LASEMA said.

Efforts are currently on ground to evacuate the derailed coaches as the NRC crane has been despatched to the scene from Lagos Island.

The combined efforts of the GM LASEMA, LRT, LRU PARAMEDICS, LRU FIRE, LASAMBUS, FRSC, RRS, LASTMA and Nigeria Police are on ground to ensure swift recovery. Recovery operation ongoing by the officials of the Nigeria Railway Corporation

'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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