This is even as a video trending online showed Nigerian Railway Workers (NRC) battling the inferno with leaves, blankets and other objects due to the non-availability of fire extinguishers on board the train coaches.

According to report, the immediate cause of the fire incident cannot be ascertained as at the time of this report.

The train did not have any fitted fire extinguisher, and the staff were battling the fire with clothes and leaves.

This is one of the train Nigerian government borrowed exponentially to purchase.