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Five tankers of an oil-tanker train derailed at the Amnura junction area in Chapainawabganj on Sunday.

No casualties or spilling of oil were reported in the incident.


A probe committee was formed.

Bangladesh Railway’s west zone general manager, Faird Ahmed, said that the derailment took place at 5:42pm when the oil tanker was going from Khulna to Amnura.

Five tankers full of oil derailed, but no incident of spilling was reported, he said and added that no one got injured in the incident either.

‘As the incident took place on a local line, rail communications on the main line have not been disrupted by the derailment,’ Farid said.

According to the railway, a relief train from Rajshahi started at around 8:00pm to remove the derailed tankers from the line and by 9:30pm it had not reached the accident spot.

Meanwhile, a five-member committee had been formed to probe the incident, as per the railway officials.