Bangladesh Railway on Friday suspended its four staff after three people, including a toddler, were killed and six others injured when a passenger train hit several vehicles on the Kalurghat Bridge in Chattogram on Thursday night.
Railway also formed a committee to probe the incident.
Two of the deceased are identified as 鈥� Ayesha, 2, daughter of Sajjadun Nur, and Md Tauhidul Islam Tushar, 25, one of the drivers of the CNG-run auto-rickshaws.
Both of them were residents of Boalkhali upazila.
According to a press release issued by the railways ministry on Friday, the incident took place at around 10:00pm on Thursday.
At that time the Parjatak Express on the Cox鈥檚 Bazar-Dhaka route was crossing the Kalurghat Bridge.
The release said that same time some vehicles got on the bridge defying the signal and the train hit the vehicles.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Chattogram reported by quoting some witnesses that the train鈥檚 locomaster (driver) did not wait for the signal and got on the bridge.
Chattogram railway thana officer-in-charge Shahidul Islam confirmed the numbers and identities of the causalities.
He said that two died on the spot while another unidentified person died at the Chattogram Medical College hospital.
Six other injured were also admitted to the same hospital, he said and added that no case was filed in this connection till Friday noon.
The railway on Friday suspended Pajatak Express鈥檚 on-duty guard Sohel Rana, locomaster Golam Rasul, assistant locomaster Amin Ullah and temporary gatekeeper Mahbub.
The railway also formed the four-member probe committee, led by the Chattogram divisional transport officer, to submit the report in three days.
Replying to a question, the railway鈥檚 east zone general manager Md Kamruzzaman said that they suspended the four staff as primarily it was found they were negligent in their duty.
The probe report would find the real reasons behind the incident, he added.
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