LASEMA confirms discovery of lifeless body on Ikeja Railway Track

By Sodiq Adelakun

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) says its operatives have found a lifeless body of a man on the Ikeja railway track, in Agege area of the state.

Head of LASEMA’s public affairs unit, Nosa Okunbor, said investigations showed that the man was hit by a moving train in the early hours of Monday.

He said the body has been deposited at the morgue.

“On arrival of the Eagle response team at the incident scene by 0902hrs, LRT discovered the body of an adult male laying dead on the railway track,” he said.

“Further investigations by the Eagle Response Team revealed that the adult male was reportedly hit by a moving train in the early hours of the day.

“The response team bagged the commodity and handed it over to the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit, SEHMU. SEHMU has transferred the commodity to the morgue for further processing.”

The agencies that responded to the incident include LASEMA Response Team, Nigeria Railway Corporation, (NRC), and Lagos Neighborhood Safety Corps (LNSC).

The incident comes less than two weeks after a 50-year-old man, identified as Emmanuel, was tragically killed by a moving train near the Arena Shopping Mall in the Oshodi area.