At least 17 people have died and dozens more have been injured in a train accident in Bangladesh. In the accident on Monday afternoon, a freight train crashed from behind into a passenger train in the north-east of the country that was traveling towards the capital Dhaka, a police spokesman said. As a result, two wagons derailed. Television footage showed hundreds of people at the scene and footage of rescue workers opening train cars to free the injured.
Train connections between the eastern part of the country and the capital Dhaka were canceled for the time being, a senior railway official said. There will be an investigation to determine the cause of the accident.
In 2020 and 2022 there was a collision between a train and a bus – sometimes twelve, sometimes eleven people died. And in November 2019, at least 16 people died in a collision between two long-distance trains.
