Lagos- Kano train derails in Osun The cargo section of a passenger train travelling from Lagos to Kano on Saturday got detached from the main body and later derailed in Osogbo, Osun state.

Lagos- Kano train derails in Osun
The cargo section of a passenger train
travelling from Lagos to Kano on Saturday got
detached from the main body and later
derailed in Osogbo, Osun state.
Mechanical fault was suspected.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the
three wagons attached to the end of the
passenger train got detached from the rest of
the coaches at Ifon area of Osun at about
1:45am.
The pilotless wagons lumbered to the
interchange at the terminus around Old Garage
area in Osogbo where the wheels got off the
track and the wagons tumbled.
A witness, Mr Biodun Opatoyinbi stated that
only one Mr Yakubu popularly called Baba
Ibeji, a train conductor was in the cargo area.
He was unhurt.
Opatoyinbo said, the train driver was later
stopped at Offa in Kwara State.
He said a man who attempted to offload the
goods in the stranded wagons has been
arrested and detained by the Nigerian Railway
corporation policemen .
Mrs Iyabo Ogundele also said that the train
conductor had been taken to the hospital for
proper medical checkup.
Ogundele said a building close to the rail track
at the interchange terminal was also
damaged.
An official of the NRC from Ibadan declined
comments when approached.
The Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria
Security and Civil Defence Corps , Mr
Babawale Afolabi, said that NSCDC officers
were keeping watch over the three wagons.