A Lagos-bound passenger train that
took off from Kano yesterday collided with a sewage truck at Kakau
village in Chikun local government area of Kaduna State.
NE learnt that the truck had
developed technical fault at the middle of the rail line and it was
abandoned by its owners hours before the arrival of the train.
Five people were said to have
sustained injuries and were taken to St. Gerald Hospital in Barnawa
area of Kaduna metropolis for medical check-up.
Spokesman of the hospital Sunday John
Ali confirmed that four persons were taken to the hospital with three
in ‘serious’ condition.
Many sympathisers were seen at the scene of the incident in spite of the offensive odour from the squeezed truck, it was learnt.
“I heard the train horning from a far
distance but the sewage truck was already at the middle of the rail
line. The train pulled the tank and moved for over 200 metres before it
stopped,” a witness said.
At the incident scene, officials of
the National Emergency Management Agency NEMA, SEMA, Nigeria Railway
officials and several security agencies rescued the victims to St.
Gerald Hospital.
Kaduna State governor, Muhktar
Ramalan Yero, who also visited the scene, described it as unfortunate.
He called on Nigerians to take measures that will prevent such disaster.
Most times we are solely reponsible for our predicaments - common sense should have told those idiots to tow the truck out of the rail line or notify the appropriate authorities. This calamity could have been prevented. KJoe
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