BANGLADESH

Train services on the Dhaka-Chittagong route resumed after a nine-hour halt due to derailment of the engine and two vans of a container train in Kasba of Brahmanbaria on Thursday.

Rail operations resumed only minutes before the noon, Assistant Station Master of Brahmanbaria Shoyeb Ahmed told bdnews24.com.

The Kasba derailment took place in less than 24 hours of restoration of rail link with Chittagong after a derailment in Feni, snapping the link again.

Earlier, another Assistant Station Master at Brahmanbaria, Moinul Islam, told bdnews24.com, "The Dhaka-bound train from Chittagong derailed around 3am when it neared Kasba station, snapping rail link of Chittagong with Dhaka and Sylhet."

He added that a rescue train from Akhaura was at work to remove the derailed engine and the vans.

Dhaka-bound Turna Nishita and Dhaka Mail were stuck midway as the lines were closed since dawn.

Rail link of Chittagong and the rest of the country was snapped on Wednesday dawn also after a similar accident near Feni. A container train had derailed and blocked the lines hampering train operations.

Rail links of Dhaka and Sylhet with Chittagong have been restored after nearly six hours of halt due to derailment of a passenger train in Comilla.

Comilla Railway Station Master Mohammad Hossain Majumder said train communication resumed around 10:30am on Wednesday when the troubled train was removed.

Assistant Engineer of Comilla Railway, Hamidul Haque, had earlier told bdnews24.com that a Chittagong-bound passenger train derailed around 5am at Comilla sadar snapping Chittagong's rail link with the capital and Sylhet.

Haque said six wheels of the train's engine got derailed. The compartments of the train had been brought to Shashidal Station following the accident.