AUTHORITIES of the Nigeria Railway Corporation says it has rescued 300 stranded passengers in the aftermath of a train derail.
The derail occured barely a month after no fewer than 20 passengers were abducted from a train station in Igueben, Edo State.
SPY News gathered that the same train plying the Warri-Itakpe route derailed yesterday leaving many of the passengers stranded.
According to passengers in the train, the incident happened inside Kogi forest, with many of the passengers said to have abandoned the train for fear of being taken hostage.
It was gathered that the train which left Warri early yesterday morning, derailed at about 12 noon inside the thick forest between Ajaokuta and Itakpe.
The Delta and Kogi State police commands could not immediately confirm the incident but the Manager, Warri/Itakpe railway, hinted he was just on his way to the scene and would give the details later.
According to a staff of the Nigerian Railway Corporation at the Itakpe Station, the incident took place at about 20 km from the destination of the train.
The source also said some of the NRC workers got vehicles that evacuated the passengers from the forest where the incident took place.
“The place is not far from the last bus stop, so some of our staff members called a cab from the station at Itakpe to evacuate all of them. It’s not far, just 20km from the incident scene. Nobody was injured,” he said.
While hinting why the train derailed, he said: “We can’t assess the cause now. Our engineer went there to check, just that the locomotive dropped from the track.”
