"I tried to warn the person in front of me but don't remember anything else, even the moment I smashed into thetrain. "I don't know how I'm still alive. I'm still trying to make sense of it all."
The boy is reported to have shouted "Allahu Akbar" before the attack. A witness reportedly said thetrain 'looked like a slaughterhouse' after the attack.
Thetrain with number 90035 carrying about twenty Dangote Company containers derailed at the railway crossing, preventing motorists from both end of the road from having access to their various destinations.
According to Jena, who spoke to CNN affiliate News18, the exact cause of the devastating collision has not yet been established. He emphasized that the priority at the moment is the continuous rescue operations.
Last night, the doctor, Identified only as Chinelo, took to Twitter to plead for prayers after suffering a bullet wound during the incident. She wrote: "I'm in thetrain . I have been shot please pray for me."
Four people can't push a container truck, talk less of a four-car train set." The spokesperson appealed tothe public to be wary of "those bent on doing everything possible to discredit the rail project".
According to an eye witness account, "thetrain was not moving at a high speed. People tried to call her attention tothe incoming train but she didn't yield tothe call as she continued pressing her mobile phone."
A rickety passenger train veered off the tracks in the Agege, Mangoro area of Lagos in the early hours of Thursday, January 10, 2019, with casualty figures yet to be ascertained at the time of filing this story.
Fidet Okhiria, the Managing Director of the Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, says the monthly revenue realised from train service operations on Abuja-Kaduna rail line has dropped from N500 million to N1 million monthly.
The Nigerian Boxing community is in mourning as a Nigerian Boxer, who is also reported to have been in the Nigerian Army, was crushed to death by a train as he was on his way for training.
Thetrain was said to have ran into the two vehicles at the level- crossing line, causing damage to them and injuring the occupants. The Lafarge truck with number plate BDG 287 XE was loaded with cement.