Free train riders attack traders, bus drivers

One of the victims of
the lawless train riders

There was pandemonium early Saturday at the Agege area of Lagos state, western Nigeria as some free train passengers unleashed terror on passers-by, bus drivers and traders close to the railway line.
The passengers, who mounted the top of a moving train, pelted their victims with stones, sticks and other objects.
Some of the traders sustained injury, their goods were destroyed just as commercial vehicles were vandalised.
A man who said he was on the way to work was hit by a stone in the head.
“We never had any inkling that this kind of an incident would occur today. In fact, we didn’t have a problem with these passengers even though they always hang illegally on the train,” Tayo Oni, a commercial driver, who plies Agege and the Toll-Gate area of Ogun state, told P.M. NEWS.
A trader, who gave her name as Bisola Adewunmi, said she was displaying her wares when a stone landed on her waist.
In the attempt to run into safety, she kicked the basket containing the fruits she was to sell.

“See my leg. I hit my right leg on an iron as I ran from the scene,” she said.
The owner of a tricycle with the windshield shattered, told P.M. NEWS that he had just brought some passengers from the Abule-Egba area of the state to Agege when the incident happened.
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