DHAKA: According to authorities, there have been at least 17 fatalities and 100 injuries in Bangladesh as a result of the collision of two trains on Monday, October 23.
A freight train collided with a passenger train traveling the other way during the fall in the eastern area of Bhairab, causing damage to two customer carriages, according to officials.
” We have found 17 body ,” she said. According to Sadiqur Rahman, a government official in Bhairab, which is located about 60 kilometers east of the capital city of Dhaka, more than 100 people were hurt.
Firefighters reported that they could still see systems crushed and trapped under overturned instructors, and Rahman predicted that the death toll would increase.
He declared,” A evacuation train carrying crane is on its manner.”
After the accident, which occurred at around 4:00 pm( 1000 GMT ), local residents and volunteers rushed to the scene.
According to Rahman, the accident happened when one train entered the same range as the other.
Hundreds of people were seen swarming the scene of the accident, many of them in grief as they looked for relatives, according to film footage broadcast by the personal Channel 24.
Nazmul Haque, a Red Crescent charity, told writers,” We have rescued at least two people live from the overturned mentors.”
Fire company, police, and the wealthy Rapid Action Battalion security force, according to officials, were present at the scene of the crash.
Authorities in Bangladesh have mandated two studies into the incident, and blood donation appeals have been made.
The freight train overshot its sign, according to Nazmul Islam, a public director of the state-run Bangladesh Railway, which owns the coach.
In Bangladesh, train accidents are frequent and frequently brought on by poor signaling, carelessness, outdated tracks, or other breakdown system.