Six Confirmed Dead in Lagos Train-Bus Accident

Six persons have been reportedly killed in an early morning accident involving a passenger train and a commercial bus conveying workers.

The dead were said to have been taking to the morgue while 80 other who sustained various degree of injuries have been taken to the hospital.

According to eyewitness account, the speeding train was said to have collided with a Bus Rapid Terminal (BRT) bus conveying civil servants in the employ of the Lagos State Government bus at the PWD bus stop in the Ikeja area of Lagos State on Thursday morning.

The National Emergency Management  Agency (NEMA) confirmed the fatalities, which gave an update on the incident via its website, said two people initially died at the scene while four others died on arrival at the hospital.

The update reads: “After a report to the Lagos Territorial Office, the Emergency Response team mobilised to the scene of a bus/train collision. The State Government staff bus was trying to cross the PWD/Sogunle rail crossing while the train coming into Lagos from Abeokuta trapped the bus on its rail.

“Two adult females staff of the State Government died on the spot and several injured evacuated. Four additional injured persons have died on arrival at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital of the 84 injured and evacuated to the hospital.”