Train hits pickup van and derails, Dhaka-Ctg rail communication resumes after 7 hours

Rail communication on Dhaka-Chattogram route was suspended for seven hours when a train derailed after hitting a pickup van in Cumilla.

Train service on the route resumed around 9:00am today, our local correspondent reports.

Chattogram-bound Mohanagar Express hit the van around 2:00am at Paduar Bazar rail-crossing point and following this, a compartment of the train derailed, Md Mursalin Rahman, assistant executive engineer of Cumilla's railway department, said.

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Since then, movement of trains from Dhaka to Chattogram, Chandpur and Noakhali was suspended, the official said.