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On Monday, a Lagos-bound passenger train coming from Kano derailed at a village near Kaduna. Four people were reportedly injured. The accident occurred between Barkin Kasua and Kakau when the train crashed into a truck obstructing the rail track. And just before a high-powered team of the engineering, operations and safety officials of the Nigerian Railway Corporation sent to the site of the accident could complete its rescue mission, a cement train also reportedly derailed on Tuesday at Kajola, near Abeokuta. Hundreds of people aboard an Ilorin-bound train that left Lagos Tuesday morning became stranded at Ijoko Train Station, some kilometres to the accident spot. A couple of weeks ago, precisely May 29, 2013, a similar accident had occurred in Agege, Lagos. A number of passengers, with the train driver, sustained injuries. The driver was said to have run the mass transit train into an improperly aligned rail, causing the derailment. Two days later, a man was crushed to d...