Father, son die as train runs them over in Tangail

TANGAIL, Feb 03: Three people including a man and his child, who were walking around the rail track, were run over by a train at Analiabari in Kalihati upazila of Tangail district on Friday night.

The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. All of them hailed from Natore district.

Toueb Ali, sub-inspector of Bangabandhu Bridge East Police Station, said that a bus was out of order when it reached Analiabari on Friday night.

Passengers of the bus, including the deceased, were roaming around the rail tracks.

At one stage, the trio were run over by the Nilphamari-bound 'Chilahati Express' train from Dhaka.

On information, railway police rushed to the spot and recovered the bodies.