4 including 3 siblings crushed under train
Four including three siblings were killed after being crushed under the wheels of a running train near Bou bazaar rail crossing in Nilphamari Sadar's Monshapara village around 7:30am yesterday.
The deceased are siblings Lima Akhtar (11), Rima Akhtar (10), and Mominur Rahman (10), children of rickshaw-puller Rezwan Ali, and Shamim Hossain (28).
Shamim was a neighbour of the deceased siblings.
Eyewitnesses told this correspondent that the victims were sitting on the rail track beside their house. Their father was with them, but he left a little while before the tragic accident.
But as the Khulna-bound mail train from Nilphamari rail station reached the spot at high speed, the siblings could not escape. Shamim Hossain, who was standing nearby, died while trying to rescue them.
Locals said they couldn't notice the approaching train as there was dense fog all around.
It became all the more tragic for the family as Mozir Ali (68), maternal grandfather of the deceased siblings, died of a heart attack as the news reached him.
After the incident, agitated villagers obstructed movement on the line for two hours but left after the Nilphamari SP and Saidpur Railway Police Station's OC pacified them.
The obstruction compelled the mail train Rupsha Express to remain stranded for the duration.
Locals have levied allegations that though the spot is an open rail crossing that hundreds of people pass through every day, no train blows whistle to caution people while passing the spot.
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