A passenger train and a cargo train crashed this afternoon in Kishoreganj`s Bhairab upazila, resulting in at least 17 deaths and numerous injuries.
Around 3:30 pm on Monday, a container train traveling towards Chattogram collided with the Dhaka-bound Egarosindhur Express, according to Sirajul Islam, duty officer at Bhairab Railway Police Station.
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Seventeen bodies have so far been recovered, said Shahjahan Shikdar, deputy assistant director (media cell) of Fire Service and Civil Defence.
Abdul Alim Sikder, the Bhairab Railway Police Station`s officer-in-charge, informed the media that the death toll might rise.
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Rescuers from police, fire service and Rab pulled out many bodies from inside the wreckage of the two badly mangled compartments.