AKHAURA: The rail communications on Dhaka-Chittagong-Sylhet routes have been restored after a 15-hour halt due to removal of fishplates of rail track by blockade supporters.

The rail services resumed around 12:40am and then Chittagong-bound Subarna Express departed from Kamlapur railway station.

The other trains stranded at the station will leave for their destinations soon, said Station Master Motaleb Hossain.

Akhaura Railway Thana Officer-in-Charge Saidul Islam told banglanews, “Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and police men were deployed in the area.”

Earlier on Tuesday morning, the train services on Chittagong-Sylhet-Dhaka routed halted as miscreants uprooted the rail slipper and set on fire to some compartments of Chattala Express.

BDST: 0904 HRS, NOV 27, 2013