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Lagos Train Crash: FG commences investigation as death toll rises to six

By Gift Luckson
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Lagos Train Crash: FG commences investigation as death toll rises to six

The Nigerian Government has ordered the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau to begin an investigation into the train collision with a BRT bus that killed 6 people and injured 79 others on Thursday in the Ikeja area of Lagos State.

READ ALSO: Train collides with BRT bus in Lagos (Photos)

Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, in a tweet, commiserated with the families of those who lost their lives and sympathized with those injured.

Sirika said experts from the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau had been directed to move quickly to investigate the incident.

“My heart goes out to those who lost their lives in today’s train crash & those who got injured as well as the Government & people of Lagos.

“Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau experts have been directed to move quickly. We solicit public cooperation as investigation commences,” he tweeted.

Neptune Prime reports that a Lagos State Government staff BRT collided with an oncoming train in the early hours of Thursday.

The train dragged the bus to a longer distance before it stopped causing a lot of fatalities.

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