A young man with earphones on was on Wednesday killed by a passenger train at Cappa area of Oshodi, Lagos.
A Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria who was inside the train reports that the man was standing on the rail track oblivious of the fast approaching train.
The NAN correspondent reports that the Ogun-Lagos-bound mass transit train was leaving its Oshodi station to Mushin when the accident occurred.
The train had as usual, sounded its horn repeatedly as it was approaching the railway crossing at Ilupeju Bye-pass for clearance of its track.
According to a witness, the man who had his earphone on was apparently carried away with either the call he was receiving or listening to music.
“Obviously the man was not aware of the approaching train even as it blasted its horn, perhaps because of the earphone.
“Before he knew it, he was already hit by the train and was not given any chance to escape.
“Immediately he was hit, the body was mangled as the train dragged it underneath,” the witness said.
It was not the first time a moving train would crush to death people standing on the rail track because of having their earphones on.
Among them was a lady in 2006, killed at Shogunle GRA railway crossing, while another one was killed in 2007 at Oshodi.
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Technology is good but you must be disciplined in it’ use. Noise from the earphones can also harm the eardrums