Four wagons of freight train derail in city
Train communication between Dhaka and other districts, except Narayanganj, got suspended as four wagons, including a loaded tank car, of a freight train derailed in the city's Karwan Bazar yesterday afternoon.
The tank wagon, carrying 33,680 litres of diesel, started to spill, flooding the adjoining tin-roofed houses while the locals ran for cover following the accident around 4:50pm, the railway authorities said. No casualty, however, was reported.
Train service was suspended one of the two rail tracks till about 10:30pm yesterday. The second track from which the train derailed was not usable till filing of this report at around 1:00am today.
Shariful Alam Sumon, owner of a roadside tea stall at Karwan Bazar fish wholesale market, said the train first derailed with a huge sound at Christian Para.
Two wagons from back first fell into two houses just beside the rail track, damaging them partially when the drivers were continuing driving the train, he said. The two other wagons, including the tank car, remained tilted after derailment.
During a visit to the scene the correspondent found that several hundred locals were collecting the oil dripping through leakages of the tank car. Locals said the oil also was spreading out into adjoining houses, causing threat of serious accident.
The drivers of the train went to the Kamalapur Railway Station taking the other wagons immediately.
A five-member probe committee was formed to find the reasons of the accident, said Nizam Uddin Ahmed, divisional railway manager of Bangladesh Railway.
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