Lady crushed to death by train in Abuja identified as NTA worker – here’s her profile

The Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) has said the woman crushed to death by a passenger train at the Chikakore axis of the Kubwa area of Abuja on Thursday morning was its worker.

In a post by the NTA on its verified Twitter Page Thursday evening, the television station revealed the victim’s name as Selimota Idowu Suleiman, who, until her death, worked at the Channel Five station of the NTA in Abuja.

Police in Abuja has confirmed the death of a lady who was crushed to death along the Chikakore axis, in the Kubwa Area Council of the FCT, by a moving train, yesterday.

The accident was said to have occurred when the car, carrying the unidentified lady, got stuck in the middle of the rail line, resulting in the train ramming into it.

Confirming the incident, the Spokesperson of FCT Police Command, DSP Josephine Adeh, said upon receiving information of the incident, investigators attached to the Byazin Divisional Police Headquarters were drafted swiftly to the scene and took charge of the situation.

She said, “The FCT Police Command is aware of the unfortunate incident of Rail/motor fatal accident that happened at Chikakore axis in the Kubwa Area council of the FCT.

“Upon receipt of the information Crime scene, investigators attached to the Byazin Divisional Police Headquarters drafted swiftly to the scene and took charge of the situation, where the victim was confirmed dead by a medical practitioner on the ground.”

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) restored the services of the Abuja-Kaduna train 13 days ago, months after it suspended services following an attack on one of the trains servicing the route by Boko Haram on March 28.

After the NTA confirmed the Kubwa train crash victim’s identity, the Chairman of the FCT Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Emmanuel Ogbeche, said the victim was a journalist in a post on his Facebook Page.