An unidentified young man with earphone on, was on Wednesday killed by a passenger train at Cappa area of Oshodi, Lagos.
Eyewitnesses said that the man was standing on the rail track oblivious of the fast approaching train.
The Ogun-Lagos-bound mass transit train was leaving its Oshodi station to Mushin when the accident occurred.
The train had as usual, sounded its horn repeatedly as it was approaching the railway crossing at Ilupeju Bye-pass for clearance of its track but 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 blared its horn, perhaps because of the earphone.
“Before he knew it, he was already hit by the train and the body was mangled as the train dragged it underneath,” the eyewitness said.
Bystanders merely 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.
Our correspondent report that the incident was not the first time a moving train would crush to death people standing on the rail track because of having their earphones on.
A lady was killed at Shogunle GRA railway crossing in 2006, while another one was killed in 2007 at Oshodi.
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