Four people were killed when a train hit them while they were crossing a railway bridge ignoring police at Akhaura in Brahmanbaria on Thursday (August 10) night.

The incident took place around 8:30 pm at Kharampur railway bridge on the Akhaura-Sylhet bypass railway line, police said.

One of the deceased was identified as Shukur Mia, 60, son of Gazi Mia of Doari village under Madhabi upazila of Narsingdi.

Jasim Uddin Khandaker, officer-in-charge of Akhaura Railway Police Station, said some devotees who came to Kharampur shrine on the occasion of urs, a religious gathering, were crossing the railway bridge ignoring the police obstruction.

At that time, when the Dhaka-bound Parabat train was coming, the policemen on duty on both sides blew the whistle and signaled the arrival of the train.

Although most of the people got down from the railway bridge, the four men tried to cross the bridge and was hit by the train. Both of them skidded off the bridge into the river after being hit by the train, OC Jasim said.

On receiving the information, a unit of Akhaura Fire Service rushed to the spot recovered the bodies of the four men from the river after about an hour of efforts.

BDST: 1532 HRS, AUG 11, 2023
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