Man Crushed To Death This Morning In Lagos

An unidentified young man with earphone on was crushed to death this morning April 8th by a passenger train at Oshodi, Lagos.According to Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who was inside the train when the incident happened, reports that the man was standing on the rail track with his earphone on and this make it unable for him to hear the fast approaching of the train. 

 The Ogun-Lagos-bound mass transit train was leaving its Oshodi station to Mushin when the accident occurred.

According to an eyewitness, the man who had his earphone on was apparently carried away with either the call he was receiving or listening to music.

Obviously the man was not aware of the approaching train even as it blasted its horn, perhaps because of the earphone. Before he knew it, he was already hit by the train and was not given any chance to escape. Immediately he was hit, the body was mangled as the train dragged it underneath,’’ the eyewitness said.

NAN reports that people standing by the rail track that saw the incident raised their hands over their heads in a show of pity for the deceased.

"The man has suddenly and unwittingly lost his life to sheer carelessness,’’ a passenger said.

It was not the first time a moving train would crush to death people standing on the rail track because of having their earphones on.Among them was a lady in 2006, killed at Shogunle GRA railway crossing, while another one was killed in 2007 at Oshodi.

Source: NAN