Not less than 17 individuals had been killed when a passenger practice and a freight practice collided exterior Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, throughout a busy vacation season.
The accident, within the Kishoreganj district, 45 miles east of the capital, additionally left over a 100 others wounded, officers stated.
Sadiqur Rahman Sabuj, the chief administrative officer of Bhairab, the place the accident occurred, stated the passenger practice was attempting to modify tracks en path to Dhaka when a freight practice headed in the other way struck its final two coaches, which had been full of 300 passengers.
“As Bangladesh is celebrating Durga Puja, many are transferring from metropolis to metropolis,” Mr. Sadiqur stated, referring to a Hindu pageant. “The dying toll might rise additional.”
Bipul Chandrashil, 52, who owns a hairdressing salon close to the railway station the place the accident occurred, stated the practice tracks had been coated in blood and physique components.
“That is the most important accident I’ve ever seen in our space,” Mr. Chandrashil stated.
Highway and ferry accidents are frequent in Bangladesh, which has struggled to improve its infrastructure for the calls for of its inhabitants of 170 million. There have been a number of lethal practice accidents lately.
In July 2022, a minimum of 11 individuals had been killed when a practice collided with a van in Chattogram, a southeastern district. In November 2019, a minimum of 19 individuals had been killed in a collision involving two trains in Brahmanbaria, additionally an jap district.
