The mangled remains of a car which was rammed by a train at Gandaria level crossing in the city yesterday morning, leaving one person dead and five others injured. Photo: Palash Khan

A man was killed and five others were injured as a train rammed a private car on Gandaria level crossing in the capital yesterday morning.
Railway sources said the level crossing is unauthorised. The railway authorities had closed it. Local people reopened it and employed a gateman.
The incident occurred when a local train from Narayanganj was approaching Gandaria Railway Station at 11.08am and the private car was crossing the railway track, sources at the railway station said.
The train pushed the car 30 yards away, said Shahar Banu, a 50-year-old employee of a shop, who witnessed the clash. When the car was being dragged, five shops along the railway track, including the one where she works, were damaged.
Banu said her husband Ohab Ali Mollah, 62, and a van driver sustained injuries as bricks from the shops' walls fell on them.
Some 10 to 12 people were sitting on the engine of the train. Three to four of them fell to the ground when the collision occurred, she added.
A local, Shahadat Hossain Jibon, rescued two persons with severe injuries and took them to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
One of the victims, Rafiqul Islam Montu, 35, sustained fractures in the left leg and head injuries. The other victim, aged about 40, was declared dead. His identity could not be known immediately.
Montu told reporters at DMCH that he had boarded the train at Fatullah Railway Station. He said he had been sitting beside the man who died in the clash.
Abdul Matin, a sub-assistant engineer of Bangladesh Railway, said the accident had left the train engine and four compartments damaged. The oil tanker of the engine was cracked.
A rescue engine reached the spot and hauled the damaged train to Kamalapur Railway Station around 1:15pm. Police wrecker removed the private car from the rail track at 1:55pm, said Matin.
Shyampur police said they had detained the car driver, Siraj Sharif, 52. Police quoted him as saying that he had been coming from the residence of the car owner at Shyampur IG Gate and was heading to a CNG filling station at Jurian.
Siraj said he was alone in the car when the collision happened.
Locals said that before the gateman of the level crossing Babul lowered the barrier, Siraj already pulled into the rail track.
Sub-assistant Engineer Matin said that in February 2011 a collision between a train and a truck at an unauthorised level crossing left several people killed at Nandalalpur in Pagla, Narayanganj.
Following the accident, he closed 12 unauthorised level crossings from Narayanganj to Kamalapur, and Gandaria level crossing was one of them, he said.
About three to four months ago local people broke the pillars and opened the gate. Some other level crossings were also opened under political influence.
Local people said they had opened the gate so they could take a shortcut to the other side and that they had employed the gatemen on their own to prevent any accident.