One dead, others injured as Train Crashes into Ogbete Market in Enugu

A middle-aged man known as Ikechukwu, was reportedly killed on Tuesday while several people were also left with various degrees of injuries when a train driver without the usual blaring of horns to alert other road users, ram into buses and traders at the popular Ogbete Main Market in Enugu, 

Speaking to Vanguard, an eyewitness disclosed that the train, said to be returning from Port Harcourt, Rivers State, barely missed a tricycle rider at the Zik Avenue intersection before getting to the Ogbete Market, where it killed one. 

Also speaking to a correspondent, one of the vehicle drivers who narrowly escaped death, said: “God saved us because what the man driving the train planned was to massacre people and set the whole place on fire. If not for God, who moved the vehicles out miraculously, we all would have perished.” 

Another eyewitness, a businessman at Ogbete Market, Lawrence Eze, alleged that “the train man always drives recklessly and he does not like to sound his horn, until he is close to the level crossing.” 

When contacted, Enugu State Police Public Relations Officer, Ebere Amaraizu, confirmed the incident, describing it as horrible. He wondered why the train driver should be on speed without using his horn.