Train Crash kills 3 in Dhaka, Bangladesh

A collision between a train coming from Narayanganj and a Gazipur-bound bus at the TT Parha level crossing at Dhaka’s Kamalapur has left at least three people including the wife of a journalist dead.

The accident took place around 10:30pm on Tuesday, Kamalapur Police Station OC Abdul Mazid told bdnews24.com.

 

Dead bodies of two men were sent to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) to be autopsied, he said. One of them was identified as ‘Sohag’, 24, a labourer from Chadpur. The other could not be identified.

 

He said at least 20 people were also injured and six of them were sent to DMCH.

 

One of them, identified as Nazmus Saba Nazu, 24, wife of Daily Janakantha Sub-Editor Obaidur Rahman, died there soon afterwards.

 

The other five are – Al Amin, 25, ‘Saju’, 26, ‘Doly’, 25, Shah Alam, 38, and ‘Iqbal’, 38. Of them, doctors said Al Amin’s condition was critical.

 

Obaidur Rahman, who was with his wife on the bus, was also injured. He received first aid.

He told reporters at the hospital that there was no bar on the level crossing which left the bus driver unaware of the approaching train.

 

Al Amin was taken from DMCH to the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR), better known as Pongu Hospital.

 

Railway Police Sub-Inspector Rafiqul Islam, who witnessed the incident, told bdnews24.com the bus fell into the accident because it was taking the wrong side.

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