A
member of the National Youth Service Corps, Nneka Odili, has lost her life as a
result of injuries sustained when a train hit her on Thursday in Lagos.
The
incident, which happened around the Ikeja axis of the rail line, threw
motorists and pedestrians in the area into confusion.
According
to a friend of the victim, Oma, who spoke with Saturday Punch on
Friday, the tragedy occurred while the victim was heading home from the monthly
clearance exercise by corps members at the Ikeja Local Government Secretariat.
Oma
said, “Nneka’s death is something I still don’t believe is real. How can she
just die like that, somebody I still related with not too long before then? I
really cannot say much; her death is one of the most painful things to have
happened around me.”
Eyewitness
reports said the young woman, popularly known as Nini by friends, wore
headphones and could not hear the train’s horn while trying to walk across the
rail track.
Odili,
who studied Home Economics at the Federal College of Education, Technical,
Omoku, Rivers State, and later went to study Human Kinetics at the University
of Port Harcourt, was said to have been rushed to a nearby hospital for medical
attention, but later died.
In
a Facebook post on Friday, a relative of the victim, Jessica Odili, wrote,
“After so much joy in the family this period, the devil decided to give us
sadness. RIP the best sister and aunty. What a life.”
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