Lagos Corps Member Feared Dead After She Was Hit While Using Ear-piece and Pressing Her Phone

A Corps member, deployed to Lagos State for her service and identified as only Debbie, was reportedly involved in a train accident yesterday in Ikeja area of the State, which according to sources left her body seriously mangled.

Leadership reports that the corps member was later rushed to the hospital for medical attention by some people, even though her case seemed hopeless.

It was further gathered that the hospital where she was taken to, was kept secret by officials of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

An eyewitness who spoke to a news correspondent said;

“The train was not moving at a high speed. People tried to call her attention to the incoming train but she didn’t yield to the call as she continued pressing her mobile phone.”

He also further stated that “I was looking at her from where I stood and saw her with an earpiece plugged into her ears which made her unable to hear the sound of the incoming train.”

This is coming after we reported that tragedy which struck along same Ikeja railway line few weeks ago, reportedly left a postdoctoral student at the University of Lagos identified as Fatai Mutiu Abolade and a yet to be identified final year student of LASU dead, as they were reportedly crushed to death by the train around Ajayi Farm, Ikeja.

The identity card found on the LASU student, showed that he was studying Economics in UNILAG and his matriculation number was 119081228.

According to eyewitnesses, Abolade and the LASU final year student were crushed to death by the train which was on full speed, while on their phone. It was gathered that the train driver kept honking, but the late accident victims were distracted by their phones.

“He was looking into his phone and pressing it. The train was honking but he did not hear. People were also shouting, he just checking his phone. By the time he raised his head up, he was already hit by the railway. There was no how he could have survived it” one of the eyewitnesses said.