Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday paid condolence visit to families of workers who lost their lives in the fatal accident involving a BRT Staff bus and a mass transit train at Shogunle area of Lagos.
The accident claimed six lives and left 79 others with various degrees of injuries.
Among those whose families were visited by Mr Sanwo-Olu, was a Youth Corps member, late Miss Aina Oreoluwa Juliana, who until her untimely death was serving in the Ministry of Education.
Governor Sanwo-Olu was accompanied by the Head of Service, Mr. Hakeem Muri-Okunola, and some members of the State Executive Council to sympathise with the bereaved families.
A Lagos State Government Staff Bus with Number 33, carrying civil servants and some dependants from Isolo to Alausa had a head-on collision with a commercial train at PWD Bus-Stop, along Agege Motor Road, in the State on Thursday.
The accident occurred when the Lagos State Government staff bus was about to cross the rail track and during the process, it collided with a commercial train at the location. Six out of the 85 passengers on the bus died while 79 civil servants and their dependants on the bus sustained varying degrees of injuries.
Governor Sanwo-Olu who was received by the three families he visited in Jakande Estate, Oke Afa, and Ikotun areas of Lagos State, commiserated with the bereaved families and prayed for them over their irreplaceable losses.
He urged them to take the death of their loved ones in good faith and see it as an act of God.
The Governor visited the families of Esther Rokosu, a staff of Lagos Internal Revenue Service (LIRS), and 54-year-old Mrs. Victoria Johnson nee Dada, a Social Welfare Officer of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).
During the visit, prayers were offered for the deceased families, various ministries, and the Lagos State Government.