Train crushes man to death

An unidentified elderly man was on Tuesday crushed to death by a train in Enugu.
Our correspondent gathered that several persons were also injured in the incident, which occurred on a rail track located around the popular Ogbete main market in Enugu metropolis.

Eye witnesses said the train, which was said to be returning from Port Harcourt, appeared suddenly on the track at high speed.

It was alleged that the train did not blow its horn to alert people who were on the rail track at the time of the incident.

Our correspondent learnt that traders use the rail track for commercial activities.

An eye witness who did not wish to be named said the train nearly crushed a tricycle, otherwise known as ‘Keke NAPEP’, before killing the elderly man.

He claimed that the driver of the train would have killed several people, but for ‘divine intervention’.

“If not God who moved the vehicles out miraculously, we all would have perished,” the man, who claimed he was among the survivors, said.

Spokesman, Enugu State Police Command, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, confirmed the development.

Amaraizu described the accident as “horrible”, and wondered why the driver of the train did not blow the horn to alert pedestrians who were on the rail track.

 Punch