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Train services on Chittagong route resume after six-hour halt
Rail communications on the Chittagong route have resumed six hours after a train derailed at Sitakunda on Tuesday morning.
Published : 25 August 2015, 11:59 AM
Updated : 25 August 2015, 11:59 AM
Two Dhaka-bound trains left Chittagong Railway Station after one side of the tracks was cleared around 11am, Station Master Abul Kalam Azad told bdnews24.com.
Inter-city ‘Bijoy Express’ hit a trailer truck, stranded on the tracks, at Barhbkunda in the morning, killing one person.
The engine and four coaches of the train, which was coming from Mymensingh, derailed, snapping Chittagong’s rail links with the rest of the country.
Four trains were stranded at the Chittagong Railway Station while five more, coming to the port city, were forced to stop at stations at that time.
The situation forced many passengers at the Chittagong station to make alternative arrangements to travel to their destinations.
Railway’s East Zone Divisional Manager Mofizur Rahman said one of the two tracks had been cleared.
“It’ll take about a day to clear the other track,” he told bdnews24.com.
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