Snapped rail link restored
Two staff of derailed train suspended
Rail communications between Dhaka and Chittagong, Sylhet, and Noakhali, which were suspended following derailment of a freight train, resumed after nine hours yesterday.
The train was derailed at Kasba of Brahmanbaria around 3:00am, for which the railway authorities had to cancel three pairs of trains scheduled for yesterday.
The suspended trains, Chattala Express and Mohanagar-Godhuli, run on Dhaka-Chittagong route and Paharika Express on Dhaka-Sylhet route.
All the other trains on the routes were also delayed by several hours, causing immense sufferings to thousands of passengers.
The rail service resumed by the afternoon as a salvage train managed to remove the derailed locomotive and two wagons from the railway tracks, reports our Brahmanbaria correspondent quoting a railway official who led the rescue operation.
Following a primary probe, the authorities suspended driver Shahjahan Mollah and his assistant Mahmud Ali of the derailed train for their negligence, reports our Chittagong correspondent quoting a top official of Bangladesh Railway.
On Wednesday, rail communications between Chittagong and other parts of the country remained disrupted for five hours after a train coach had derailed in Feni.
The top official said derailment of a train among 172 others running for the east zone is a normal matter.
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