Scores of people are reported to have been injured in Lagos, Thursday morning, after a passenger train crushed a Lagos State Government staff bus at PWD area of the state.
The incident happened around past 7 am on Thursday.
The spokesperson for the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Taofiq Adebayo said rescue operation was ongoing.
“The accident recorded many casualties as the bus is fully loaded with government staff going to office this morning”.
Witnesses at the scene said the bus was attempting to cross the rail track when an oncoming train rammed into it.
The train reportedly dragged the bus from Sogunle to the PWD area of Ikeja
The train was coming from Agege and met a BRT vehicle with the Lagos state government workers on board crossing the rail to link Ikeja GRA, one of the sympathisers said.
It was uncertain the number of casualties but the BRT bus was smeared with the fresh blood of victims.
The accident has caused a gridlock on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway from for motorists coming from Oshodi around Shogunle to Ikeja-Along
