Two die as trains run them over

Two people, including a schoolgirl, died when separate trains ran them over in the capital's Gulbag and Khilket area yesterday.
Abdul Mannan 47, a laboratory technician of Local Government Engineering Department in Manikganj, was over the cell phone while walking on the rail tracks when a Dhaka-bound train, Dhumketu Express, rolled over him.
His younger brother, Lutfur Rahman, said Mannan left their Hatirpool residence for his work at Manikganj but the family does not have any idea why he went to Gulbagh.
In another incident, a class-X student of Khilgaon Girls School and College, Nilufar Yasmin Priya, 16, of Khilgaon Bagicha, died after a Tongi-bound train ran her over.
Railway police could not ascertain what Priya was doing on the spot. The body clad in school uniform was sent for an autopsy.