Passengers stranded as Nigerian train runs out of fuel

A number of passengers have had no choice but to disembark from the train they were travelling on after it ran out of fuel, Nigerian media report.

Punch news has shared this video of people waiting on the tracks next to the Lagos-to-Ibadan train:

It’s not known why or how the locomotive ran out of fuel.

A short while ago, the Cable news site quoted a spokesman for the Nigerian Railway Corporation as saying he wasn’t aware of the situation.