Several persons are presently feared dead and injured following an early morning collision between a Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) train and a bus from the Lagos State Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) program near the PwD bus stop before Oshodi, on Thursday.
Eyewitness accounts claim that a BRT bus was struck by a train at the Shogunle railway crossing as it attempted to cross.
“The BRT bus was crossing the railway track at Shogunle when it got hit by the train. The BRT bus shouldn’t have attempted to cross because the train was already nearbye.
“Many people are inside the BRT bus and I cannot give account of the number of injured for now,.
“The train ran into the BRT bus at Shogunle and dragged it along the rail track up to PwD area” an eye witness told the Nigerian Tribune exclusively.
As at the time of filing in this report, a large crowd of sympathisers were busy evacuating the dead and injured.
More details soon……