5 killed in Moulvibazar train crash
Over 150 injured
At least five people were killed and over 150 injured as an intercity train derailed at Baramchal in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar tonight.
Several bogies of Dhaka-bound ‘Upaban Express’ train from Sylhet veered off the tracks after a culvert over the Barochhara Canal, 200 yards off Baramchal Railway Station, broke down, district fire service sources told The Daily Star.
Two of the bogies fell into the canal and one of them overturned, UNB reports quoting police. Three bodies were recovered from the spot, it adds.
The accident also snapped Sylhet’s rail communications with other parts of the country, including the capital.
On information, firefighters and police rushed in, Yardous Hasan, officer-in-charge of Kulaura Police Station, told UNB from the spot.
