Dhaka’s rail link with north resumes after three and half hours


FE Team | Published: August 09, 2019 17:31:31 | Updated: August 10, 2019 09:44:57


Dhaka’s rail link with north resumes after three and half hours

Rail services between Dhaka and the northern region have resumed after three and a half hours.

Rail link was snapped after a train got derailed in Tangail.

A coach of the Khulna-bound Sundarban Express went off the tracks a few metres west of the Bangabandhu Bridge at 1:20 pm on Friday, said Mizanur Rahman, divisional railway manager (Pakshey).

But there were no immediate reports of casualties, as per a bdnews24.com report.

The train departed from Dhaka's Kamalapur Station at 8am before two wheels of the bog

ey went off the track, disrupting railway services on the route.

But the railway official could not immediately tell when normal services would resume.

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