DHAKA, Jul 30 (NNN-BSS) – At least 11 people were killed, when a train ploughed into a tourist minibus yesterday, at a rail crossing in south-east Bangladesh.
At least three people were critically injured in the accident, at Bangladesh’s Chattogram district, some 242 km south-east of the capital Dhaka, at about 1:45 p.m. local time, Kabir Hossain, officer-in-Charge of local Mirsharai police station, said.
One of the passengers miraculously remains unscathed after being hit by the train, he added.
He further said, the train, en route to seaport city of Chattogram from Dhaka, rammed into the passenger minibus at a level crossing.
“All the 11 dead, including the driver, were in the microbus,” said the police official, adding that, all of them were tourists heading towards the Khoiyachora waterfall, in Mirsharai area, in the Chattogram district.
The minibus climbed onto the track ignoring the stop signal, Ansar Ali, a railway official, told reporters. He said, though the gateman had lowered the bar at the crossing, the bus crashed through it.
The bus was dragged a short distance by the train before it stopped, he added.– NNN-BSS
