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Train-truck Collision

Rail link with Ctg snapped for 8 hours

Thousands suffer

Arun Bikash Dey and Shahadat Hossain, ctg
Rail communications between the port city and other parts of the country remained snapped for around eight hours following a train-truck collision in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong early yesterday.
The service resumed around 12:35pm with Subarna Express leaving the Chittagong station. The train was scheduled to start for Dhaka at 7:00am.
Meanwhile, thousands of train travellers remained stranded at different stations in Chittagong and Feni since early morning yesterday.
Mizanur Rahman, public relations officer (PRO) of Bangladesh Railway (East Zone), said the Chittagong-bound Mymensingh Express had collided with a truck around 4:30am when the vehicle was passing a level crossing in Foujdarhat.
The engine and two coaches of the train had derailed due to the impact, the PRO said, adding that the collision had left the trucker and the loco master, his assistant and a guard of the train injured. The trucker was given treatment al Chittagong Medical College Hospital while the train staffs received first aid at Chittagong Railway Hospital.
Two relief trains from Chittagong and Laksham railway stations had reached the accident spot around 6:00am to clear the track, said AA Shamsul Alam, manager of Chittagong railway station.
The railway authorities yesterday formed a four-member committee to investigate the accident and asked it to submit its report within seven days. The committee is headed by Sushil Kumar I lalder, Chittagong divisional signal and telecommunication officer of Bangladesh Railway (BR).
Meanwhile, BR Divisional Train Controller Abu Bakar Siddique said guard of the derailed train Abdul Hoque Majurnder had told him that Ilie gate at the level crossing was open and the gateman was not there when the accident occurred.
PASSENGERS' SUFFERING More than 4,000 passengers had to suffer al the Chittagong railway station wailing for the rail communication to resume.
During a visit to the station, passengers of six trains that were supposed to leave the port city were seen worrying about when they would reach their destinations.
The trains that were scheduled to leave Chittagong Station in the morning were: Subarna Express, Mahanagar Provati, Paharika Express, Chattala Express, Sagarika Express and Karnaphuli Express.
The railway authorities, however, cancelled the trip of Chandpur-bound Mahanagar Provati, which was scheduled lo leave Chittagong station at 8:15am. The decision came as a shocker for the passengers of the cancelled train.
Azad Abdus Sobhan, who had been waiting at the station with his wife and two children since 6:30am, became hugely disappointed with the decision as his hope to reunite with his family in Brahmmanbaria for Eid had been plunged into uncertainty.
Md Belal Hossain, a stu-dent of Chittagong Commerce College, came to the station to take the first train, Subarna Express, to the capital to sit for a job examination there. "I have been waiting here since 6:00am,” he said with a worried look.
Four other Chittagong-bound trains carrying more than 2,000 passengers remained stranded al different stations in Chittagong and Feni. The Tuma Nishita from Dhaka and the Udayan Express from Sylhet were stranded at Sitakunda station while the Chittagong Mail from the capital was halted at Chinki Astana station and Meghna Express from Chandpur at Fazilpur station in Feni.
Meanwhile, the five-day sale of advance tickets for inter-city trains ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr ended yesterday. All the tickets of Dhaka-bound trains were sold out by 12:15prn.