Train derails in Kaduna, Kills 4 People

FOUR people were reportedly injured on Monday as a train belonging to the Kaduna State Rail Transport System derailed at Kakau village on the outskirt of the state capital.

Spokesman of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Abubakar Adamu told newsmen that the injured had been taken to the St. Gerald Hospital in Kakuri Kaduna where they were receiving treatment, but no one died in the accident.

The train service which had provided cheap source of transport in the state capital and environs was introduced during the administration of then Governor Namadi Sambo in 2008.