Four teenagers playing near a railway track were crushed to death by a speeding train in Nilphamari's Sadar upazila early on Wednesday morning.
The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. But all of them were boys aged between 12 and 14 years, police said.
The accident occurred around 7am when the four teenagers were playing near the railway track in the Boubazar area of the upazila.
"Rajshahi-bound Titumir Express hit the boys, leaving them dead on the spot," said Lutfur Rahman, the officer-in-charge of Nilphamari Government Railway Police.
