A
commercial train moving across Enugu from Port Harcourt in Rivers
State, rammed into commercial buses at Ogbete Main market Enugu, killing
an elderly man while many others sustained injuries.
File photo: The scene of a train crash
A middle-aged man known as Ikechukwu, was reportedly killed on
Tuesday while several people were also left with various degrees of
injuries when a train driver without the usual blaring of horns to alert
other road users, rammed into buses and traders at the popular Ogbete
Main Market in Enugu,
Speaking to Vanguard, an eyewitness disclosed that the train, said
to be returning from Port Harcourt, Rivers State, barely missed a
tricycle rider at the Zik Avenue intersection before getting to the
Ogbete Market, where it killed one.
Also speaking to a correspondent, one of the vehicle drivers who narrowly escaped death, said: “God
saved us because what the man driving the train planned was to massacre
people and set the whole place on fire. If not for God, who moved the
vehicles out miraculously, we all would have perished.”
Another eyewitness, a businessman at Ogbete Market, Lawrence Eze, alleged that “the train man always drives recklessly and he does not like to sound his horn, until he is close to the level crossing.”
When contacted, Enugu State Police Public Relations Officer, Ebere
Amaraizu, confirmed the incident, describing it as horrible. He wondered
why the train driver should be on speed without using his horn.
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