Deadly crash in Bangladesh
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December 9, 2010, Thursday
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AT least seven people were killed and 50 were injured in a train collision in Bangladesh yesterday, police said.
The Daily Star online edition and local television channel Desh reported the death tolls as 10 and 13 respectively. Both outlets said more than 100 people were injured.
The accident occurred at a railway station at Narsingdi, 55 kilometers northeast of the capital Dhaka, when a passenger train slammed into another stationary passenger train. The impact derailed most of the carriages.
"We can so far confirm seven casualties, including three bodies stuck in a mangled carriage," Akkasuddin Bhuiyan, police superintendent of Narsingdi, told Reuters.
A reporter at the scene said he saw nearly 10 bodies and many others were injured, as three carriages of the stationary train were badly mangled. Rescue trains were sent to the scene to remove wreckage.
A fire service official said the death toll may rise as more than 50 badly injured people had already been taken to local hospitals. Hundreds of people thronged the scene looking for their relatives traveling in the trains.
An army rescue team joined the operation, but a sudden downpour was hampering efforts to pull victims out of the wreckage. Rail services between Dhaka and the country's main port, Chittagong, remained suspended.
Railway officials said an investigation had been launched to determine the cause of the crash.
Bangladesh Railway runs 162 passenger and 34 goods trains daily in a network of about 3,000 kilometers.
But derailments and collisions occur frequently, killing more than 20 people across the country a year.
The Daily Star online edition and local television channel Desh reported the death tolls as 10 and 13 respectively. Both outlets said more than 100 people were injured.
The accident occurred at a railway station at Narsingdi, 55 kilometers northeast of the capital Dhaka, when a passenger train slammed into another stationary passenger train. The impact derailed most of the carriages.
"We can so far confirm seven casualties, including three bodies stuck in a mangled carriage," Akkasuddin Bhuiyan, police superintendent of Narsingdi, told Reuters.
A reporter at the scene said he saw nearly 10 bodies and many others were injured, as three carriages of the stationary train were badly mangled. Rescue trains were sent to the scene to remove wreckage.
A fire service official said the death toll may rise as more than 50 badly injured people had already been taken to local hospitals. Hundreds of people thronged the scene looking for their relatives traveling in the trains.
An army rescue team joined the operation, but a sudden downpour was hampering efforts to pull victims out of the wreckage. Rail services between Dhaka and the country's main port, Chittagong, remained suspended.
Railway officials said an investigation had been launched to determine the cause of the crash.
Bangladesh Railway runs 162 passenger and 34 goods trains daily in a network of about 3,000 kilometers.
But derailments and collisions occur frequently, killing more than 20 people across the country a year.
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