Passenger Train Collides with Truck in Kaduna

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has confirmed that its Kano-Lagos Inter-City passenger train was involved in an accident with a truck that was illegally obstructing the rail track.

A statement by the NRC’s Assistant Director Public Relations, Mr. David Ndakotsu, said the accident occurred around 3:p.m. monday, between Barkin Kasua and Kakau section of the track in Kaduna State, while the train was on a return journey to Lagos.

Few passengers were reported injured and had since been taken to the hospital for treatment. No death was reported as at the time of filing this report.

The corporation has sent a high-powered team of its engineering, operations and safety officials to the site of the accident.

Another accident involving a passenger train shuttling between Iddo and Agbado Station and a truck was recorded on Saturday evening in Lagos.

The accident, which occurred around the level crossing at PWD bus stop, in the Ikeja area of the state, left at least five persons

seriously injured.

The injured persons were among those who hitch-hiked the train and were hanging on the train coaches.

The condition of the injured persons who were rushed to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), was said to have

stabilised and responding to treatment when our reporter checked at the hospital