No fewer than 300 Lagos-bound train passengers? were? stranded in Abeokuta on Thursday following? an early morning down pour which washed away the? rail track at Lafenwa.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the rain,? which lasted? several hours,? wreaked havoc in several parts of?? the? metropolis.
The 12-coach train in which the passengers were travelling from Ilorin in Kwara, could? not proceed beyond the? Lafenwa station in Abeokuta.
NAN further gathered that the flood swept away the underlay sand of the rail track around the area.
Eye witnesses? told NAN? that the train, which was? painted in national colours,? had?? crushed a Nissan? pick-up van? at the railway crossing at Odo Eran a few metres from? the station.????
NAN gathered that the vehicle,? which was being pushed,? was? abandoned on the rail track? when the owner and others pushing it? sighted the approaching train.
A NAN correspondent,? who visited the station,? reports that many of the passengers with heavy luggage and? goods inside the train,? were seen loitering around the premises.
Officers of the Ogun Police Command as well as other security agents? in the state, were sighted? ensuring security at the station.(NAN)