Derailment of a compartment of a passenger train near the airport station in Dhaka on Tuesday disrupted rail communications between Dhaka and the rest of Bangladesh.
Almost all trains from and to Dhaka are currently running behind the schedules due to the derailment, said Bangladesh Railway officials.
No causality was reported.
The disruption caused serious suffering to the passengers as trains were behind schedules and many were seen stranded at different rail stations.
Anowar Hossain, station master of Dhaka rail station, popularly known as Kamlapur rail station, said that one compartment of Burimari Express on the Lalmonirhat-Dhaka route derailed at about 11:30am on Tuesday when it was entering the station in the capital.
Explaining that the Kamlapur railway station had two lines, one for departure from Dhaka and the other for entering Dhaka, the station master said that the derailment halted train operation on the line for entering Dhaka till 2:00pm.
Train movement on the line for departure from Dhaka is continuing while the trains to enter Dhaka are also using the same line.
As a result, the trains were seen running behind their schedules.
鈥楩ollowing the incident, rescue operation is ongoing to remove the derailed compartment,鈥� he said, adding that no one got injured in the incident.
