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By, Joke Thomas
A trader was knocked down by a Lagos-Ibadan train around Oshodi Lagos, yesterday.
It was around 2pm with sympathisers and passers-by thronging the area.
Eyewitnesses said the trader was crushed to death in front of Arena Shopping Complex, Oshodi.
The middle-aged man was said to be urinating while standing on the middle of the rail tracks, with an earpiece on his two ears.
Heavy horn of the train and passers-by shouting to warn the man fell on deaf ears, as he could not hear due to his earpiece.
YOUNEWS learnt the dead man was a trader who has a shop at a shopping complex called Moyosore
The deceased was chatting on the phone with three other people moving on the railway tracks, but the three others heard Train horn and quickly ran away.
It may be recalled that cases of train knocking down people have become a recurring decimal due to high prevalence of human activities on the train corridor within the Lagos axis.
In areas like Agbado, Agege, Ikeja, Oshodi, traders often display their wares on the rail tracks while quickly packing the wares as soon as a train approaches thereby endangering their lives.
