Man crushed under train in Chattogram

CHATTOGRAM, June 19 (UNB): A 32-year-old man was crushed and another injured under the wheels of a train in the Bariarhat area of Mirsarai district on Saturday.

The identities of the victims could not be known immediately.

The accident occurred around 12:15pm on Saturday in the rail crossing area of Bariarhat fish market, said Md Khorshed, sub-inspector of Chittagong Railway Police.

A Chittagong-bound Sonar Bangla and Dhaka-bound Karnaphuli Express were passing together at noon. At that time a young man and a teenager fell on the rail tracks from the Karnafuli Express train, added the SI. "One of them died on the spot."

The injured teenager was sent to Mirsarai Upazila Health Complex. Arrangements have been made by CID to reveal the identity of the youth through DNA tests, said Mohammad Nazim Uddin, officer-in-charge of Railway Police Station.