EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Indian rescue personnel stand near a body in the wreckage of a train that derailed near Pukhrayan in Kanpur district on November 20, 2016. Emergency workers raced November 20 to find any more survivors in the mangled wreckage of an Indian train that derailed overnight, killing at least 116 people, in the worst disaster to hit the country’s ageing rail network in recent years. / AFP PHOTO
By Levinus Nwabughiogu
ABUJA-President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi over the Sunday train disaster that killed more than 100 passengers near Pukhrayan.
The President, who received the news of the train derailment and heavy loss of lives, expressed great sorrow and profound shock over the unfortunate incident.
He also commiserated with the families of the victims.
According to President Buhari, “the loss of human life on whatever scale, and anywhere, is bad enough,” adding that “the world becomes united in sorrow during such moments because our common humanity makes us a family.”
President Buhari said that the government and the people of Nigeria felt and shared the pains and the anguish of the families of the victims and all Indians.
He prayed God to “comfort the grieving Asian nation.”
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