A man has escaped death by the whiskers
as a moving train crushed his leg and hand, at Ajayi Farm bus-stop,
opposite Adegbola street, in
Ikeja area of Lagos State, this morning.
The victim was crossing the railway but unknown to him a train was
moving closer to him.
Some sympathisers at the scene said the
noise of the moving cars along the Oshodi Iyana- Ipaja expressway would
not allow a passerby to hear the sound of a moving train.
A sympathiser, Clifford Anyanwu
disclosed that before the victim could notice that a train was close by,
it was too late. “Though the man tried to escape from the railway, the
devil was already there to avert his escape. His trousers hooked a
protruding iron in the rail which made the train to meet him and crushed
one of his legs and one of his hands. The man wept profusely and even
some women were crying for him. Many prayed that he survives the
tragedy,” he said It was gathered that the driver of the train which was
moving towards Oshodi area did not hoot its horn from afar to alert
people that such heavy vehicle was approaching.
An eyewitness, who identified himself
simply as Mama Adesua said, “They were two who tried to cross the
railway. One noticed that the train was coming and quickly crossed while
the other (the victim) did not and has paid dearly for it. All efforts
he made to escape proved abortive because he was under tension and the
rail iron has held his trouser, causing the train to crush his leg and
hand. I and other women were crying like babies when we saw the helpless
man in the pool of his blood.”
According to LEADERSHIP, policemen
attached to Man Centre police station were at the scene and they
assisted alongside some sympathisers to rush the victim to Lagos State
University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja.
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