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Fencing off rail tracks to stop accidents suggested

Sunday, 14 September 2014


A parliamentary watchdog has suggested fencing off the railway tracks on either side to stop makeshift markets from being thrown up again even after they are evicted.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Railways made the recommendation Sunday, three days after four people were killed when they were caught between two trains in Dhaka's Karwan Bazar, according to a news agency.
Since then, railway authorities started an eviction drive both in the capital and Chittagong demolishing illegal shanties, shops and makeshift markets on and alongside the rail tracks.