The tragedy on March 9 at the PWD railway line in Shogunle, Ikeja, Lagos State, resulted in six confirmed fatalities, including the 28-year-old.

Oreoluwa Aina, a member of the National Youth Corps, was killed in a freak accident involving a train and a staff bus owned by the Lagos State Government. Her remains have been laid to rest.

The tragedy on March 9 at the PWD railway line in Shogunle, Ikeja, Lagos State, resulted in six confirmed fatalities, including the 28-year-old.

Aina, who worked for the Lagos State Ministry of Education’s Curriculum Services Department in Alausa, was buried on Saturday at the Atan cemetery.

At the funeral was a delegation from the state government led by Folasade Adefisayo, Commissioner for Education. The deceased’s family members and the State Coordinator for NYSC, Yetunde Baderinwa, were also present.

In the meantime, the driver of the Lagos State Government employee bus who on Thursday crashed with a moving train in the state’s Ikeja district has pleaded with the victims of the disaster to pardon him.

This comes after one of the accident survivors, who only went by the name Titilayo, described the sequence of events that led up to the incident in an interview with newsmen, claiming that they urged the bus driver to wait for the train to pass but he refused.

The driver, who is employed by the Lagos State Ministry of Transport, gave his account of what occurred on that tragic day and attributed the tragedy on a mechanical issue with the bus.

“It was not my fault. How could I have ignored warning signs? The bus had a mechanical fault. It is a pity this has happened. I beg everyone affected to please forgive me in the name of God.” The Vanguard newspaper quoted him as saying.

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