Woman, child crushed under train in Cumilla

An unidentified woman and a child died as they fell under the wheels of a train at Bijoypur of Laksham upazila in Cumilla district on Wednesday night.

Quoting locals, Masud Alam, officer-in-charge of Laksham Police Station, said the Dhaka-bound train of ‘Sonar Bangla Express’ hit the woman and the child while they were crossing Dhaka-Chattogram rail track near Bijoypur around 7:30 pm, leaving both dead on the spot.

On information, police recovered the bodies and sent them to a local hospital morgue.

The woman and the child used to beg in the area, said police.