Train Crushes Rider To Death Month Before Wedding

A dispatch rider, said to be in his early 30s, was on Thursday crushed to death by a train in the Fagba area of Lagos State.

Punch reports that the victim, identified simply as Johnson, was working with a courier service in Ikeja and his wedding was reportedly scheduled for March. He was riding the firm’s motorcycle from the Abule Egba area when the incident happened.

It was gathered that vehicular movements had been stopped in the area because of the train which was passing. The deceased, it was learnt, wanted to hurriedly cross the rail track when he was trapped by the train.

Eyewitnesses said he was dragged into a drain but was later brought out dead in a pool of blood.

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A neighbour reportedly said Johnson had his engagement at his village in December and that he was supposed to wed in March in Lagos.