TERRIBLE: Confusion as headless body is found on train tracks in Kwara

by ‘Jola Sotubo

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Residents of the Isaac Mowo area of Ilorin, the capital of Kwara, were greeted by a horrific sight yesterday when they found a headless corpse.

The decapitated body of an unidentified man was found on the train tracks but there has been no final conclusion as to how he died.

Some of the man’s body parts were strewn across the area as residents speculated on whether he had been crushed by a train.

Other residents believe that the man was killed elsewhere and his body subsequently dumped on the tracks.

Punch reports:

A source claimed that the man was crushed on Sunday by a Lagos-Kano bound train which had a stop-over in Ilorin. Another source also claimed that the man committed suicide by jumping into the path of an incoming train.

Yet another source said the victim may have been killed by unknown assailants and his corpse dragged to the rail line.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Kwara State Command, Mr. Okasanmi Ajayi in a telephone interview with our correspondent said the police gathered that the victim was crushed by a moving train.

He stated that though the police had yet to ascertain the identity of the victim, nearby residents claimed that the victim was a lunatic.

But the Railway District Manager, Nigeria Railway Corporation, Mr. Rasheed Gbadamosi, told our correspondent on the telephone that the dead man was not killed by a train.

He said, “He was not killed by a moving train. We have asked all the drivers that drove at the weekend, and there was no report of any accident.

“If our train crushes somebody, definitely we will know because a telegram will be sent. It is not a hidden matter.

“We have a scenario where people, when they kill people or they find corpses around their environment, will deposit the corpses on rail lines. We have been experiencing that lately.”

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