A garment worker was killed as a train hit him while he was crossing rail track in front of the Sainik Club in the city's Banani area.
The deceased Mosharraf Hossain aged about 20 of Sherpur district was a machine operator of Madona Fashion of Banani.
A witness, also production manger of the factory, Mohammad Shahjan said a Tongi-bound train from Kamalapur Railway Station hit him when he was smoking and absent mindedly crossing the rail track around 1:00pm.
Government Railway Police Sub-Inspector Amir Hossain said locals rushed Mosarraf to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) where duty doctors declared him dead at about 1:40 pm.