The trip of a Kaduna-Abuja
train carrying about 600 passengers was halted on Sunday near Rijana in Kaduna
State after it crushed over 52 cows.
However, no human casualty
was recorded as the speeding carriage going to Abuja from Rigasa Railway
Station hit the cattle at about 11:45am.
The incident occurred two
days after another train plying the route broke down in Jere local government
area.
Both Rijana and Jere are
notorious for kidnapping and armed robbery.
The train with registration
number KA4 stopped for about 40 minutes and the passengers panicked the entire
time.
Kaduna State Police Command
said the cattle were crushed along Kasarami-Jere axis in Chikkun Local
Government Area.
“There is nothing like
attack but purely it was train accident, so nobody should panic,” Commissioner
of Police, Ahmad Abdulrahaman, told journalists in Kaduna.
He disclosed that 27 cattle
that sustained injuries were slaughtered by the chief butcher of Kasarami
village.
“When the information of
the accident reached the command, I quickly mobilised our men to the scene to
assess the situation,” he said.
He explained the herdsmen
were moving the cattle to Funtua Local Government in Katsina State.
“They innocently inquired
on whether there were rail services on Sunday, but were misinformed that there
was none.
“I have summoned the
traditional rulers of the area, youths and farmers on the need to continue to
live in peace and to avoid crossing the rail track indiscriminately with farm
produce and animals”.
He added that a similar
meeting will hold with officials of the railway corporation on how to avert
such an accident in future.
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