Rail link with Ctg cut off for 9 hours

Railway communications between Chittagong and other parts of the country remained snapped for nine hours from 3:10am yesterday following derailment of a freight train at Lalmai Station in Comilla.
Train communication, however, restored at around 12:10pm after two relief trains from Akhaura and Laksham cleared the track, removing the derailed wagons and engine.
Ibrahim Khalil, divisional manager of Bangladesh Railway (east zone), said two wagons and the locomotive (engine) of a Shantahar-bound wheat-laden goods train derailed at Lalmai Station as its driver moved on ignoring signal.
Thousands of passengers faced untold sufferings due to disruption to train services. Udayan Express, which left Sylhet at 9:10pm on Saturday, remained stranded at Lalmai Station for nine hours, railway sources said.
Passengers of Dhaka-bound Subarno Express, which left Chittagong Station at 7:30am, also suffered a lot since the train was stranded near Lalmai station for over two few hours.
A four-member committee headed by Divisional Transportation Officer Moksudul Rahman was formed to probe the accident. Other members of the committee are Divisional Mechanical Engineer Md Mohiuddin, Divisional Engineer (1) Abul Kalam Chowdhury and Divisional Signal and Telecom Engineer Sushil Kumar Halder.