Breaking News: Fire Razes Train In Lagos

According to reports, a train belonging to the Nigeria
Railway Corporation, NRC, was Thursday, gutted by
fire in the Ebute-Meta area of Lagos State.

T

he NRC District Public Relations Officer, PRO,
Khadijat Adekomaiya, who confirmed the incident,
said the fire had caused serious loss to the
corporation.


His words: “The coaches were parked for repairs and
when we noticed the fire, we asked all our workers to
move out. We tried fighting the fire with fire
extinguishers to reduce the damage before the
arrival of firefighters.


“We will ensure a thorough investigation so that it
does not recur in the future. As you can see, we only
suffered material loss, no one sustained injuries and
no life was lost,” he added.

The two coaches were completely damaged by the
fire but fire service later arrived and put out the fire,
after other parts of the train had been detached
from the coaches