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Train kills young woman

21 June 2009, 17:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Dinajpur

A young woman was crushed under a running train at Shundaripara rail crossing in Parbatipur upazila. Police said a Rangpur-bound train ran over the woman, aged between 20 and 22, as she was hurriedly trying to cross the tracks. Later police recovered the body and sent it to Parbatipur Upazila Health Complex for autopsy.