The Lagos State Police Command has recovered the body of an unknown man by the rail line in the Ijora-Badia area of the state.
Newsnaija learned that passers-by in the area saw the man lying motionless beside the rail line.
Later same day security agents, including neighborhood guards and policemen attached to the Ijora Badia Police Division, were contacted to rescue the man.
the policemen were about to take the man to the hospital when they found a container of an insecticide by his side.
This discovery was said to have aroused the suspicion that the man might have consumed the substance in the container.
He was immediately rushed to a hospital for urgent treatment was he pronounced dead by the doctor on duty.
Bala Elkana, the state Police Public Relations Officer, When contacted, said some good Nigerians rushed the victim to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, adding that the corpse had been deposited in a mortuary for autopsy.
However, further developments will be communicated.