train accident

Another Eid, another train tragedy

How long will human negligence be tolerated?
24 March 2026

Families of Cumilla crash victims to receive Tk 1 lakh each: State minister

Habibur Rashid highlighted govt plans modernising crossings, automatic signalling, and overpasses, underpasses to curb accidents
22 March 2026

Nilsagar Express derailment in Bogura: Train services resume after 22 hours

Assistant station master suspended; speed restrictions remain as investigations continue
19 March 2026
18 March 2026

Three killed as train runs over pedestrians on Gazipur

Victims failed to hear the train approaching
25 December 2025

SI killed after being hit by train while on phone call in Dhaka

The incident occurred around 9:30pm as he was walking on the rail tracks while on a phone call
18 May 2025

Container train derails at Kamalapur, services resume fully after disruption

Although the railways authorities were able to open the second line around 2:10pm, trains are still running late
19 March 2025

7 killed as train hits electric rickshaw

At least seven people were killed after a train hit a battery-run autorickshaw at an unauthorised level crossing in Burichang upazila of Cumilla yesterday.
26 November 2024

5 passengers crushed under train after falling off roof

Five people riding on the roof of a train were killed after they fell off and were run over by the train in Raipura upazila of Narsingdi this morning
8 July 2024
21 April 2024

Save the Children employee dies after being hit by train in Dhaka

Witnesses said he was wearing earphones and couldn't hear bystanders' warnings
28 November 2023

Odisha train accident in frames

At least 288 people have died in India's worst rail accident in over two decades, officials said on Saturday, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in the east of the country
3 June 2023

Train accident in Odisha: Hotline opened for Bangladeshis

Deputy High Commission in Kolkata has opened a hotline to get information about Bangladeshis following a terrible train accident in Balasore, Odisha state of India
3 June 2023

519 people died in 458 accidents in August: Road Safety Foundation

At least 519 people died and 961 suffered injuries in 458 accidents across the country in August this year, Road Safety Foundation, a non-government organisation, said in a press release today (September 3, 2022).
3 September 2022

Mirsarai Tragedy: Another victim dies, death toll now 13

Another victim of the Mirsarai train-microbus collision lost the battle for life at Chattogram Medical College Hospital yesterday, raising the death toll in the tragedy to 13.
7 August 2022

Death lurks at unsafe level crossings

Accidents at unprotected level crossings continue to claim lives as decisions taken at an inter-ministerial meeting around one and a half years back to curb such fatalities remained largely unimplemented.
29 July 2022

Worker bought Eid gift for parents, dies in accident on way to hometown Noakhali

A worker of an iron workshop died after falling from the roof of a running train in Laksham upazila of Cumilla early today.
1 May 2022

Hit by train, former principal of Ispahani Girls' School and College dies

A former principal of Ispahani Girls' School and College died after a train hit him in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar area this morning.
11 February 2021

Three persons killed under train in Dhaka

Three persons died under the wheels of two separate trains in the city’s Kuril area since last evening.
25 June 2020

4 killed as locomotive hits three-wheeler in Rangpur

Four people have been killed and two injured as a locomotive hit a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Pirgachha upazila of Rangpur.
30 March 2020