Bangladesh Railway has temporarily suspended four of its staffers over Sunday’s collision between Sonar Bangla Express train and a freight train that left 35 people injured.
The four are guard Abdul Quader (Chattogram Division), Hasanpur station maintainer signal Wahid, loco master Md Jashim Uddin (Dhaka Headquarters) and assistant loco master Md Mohsin (Dhaka Headquarters).
Shariful Islam, senior information officer of Railway Ministry, confirmed the matter to The Business Post on Monday.
Rail communication from Dhaka to Chattogram was disrupted after Dhaka-bound Sonar Bangla Express hit a freight train at Hasanpur railway station of Cumilla on Sunday evening.
Later, two separate probe committees were formed to investigate the accident. A five-member probe body was formed by the district administration and another four-member probe body was formed by the railways.
Meanwhile, the train movement resumed after 9 pm on Sunday after two salvage trains removed the bogies from the main lines, train examiner SM Akhtar Hossain and Station Master of Hasanpur Railway Station Mong Marma said.
Six compartments and the locomotive of Sonar Bangla Express train derailed on Sunday injuring at least 35 passengers and six of them are in critical condition.
Several of the injured are being treated at Nangalkot Health Complex.
Meanwhile, the train movement resumed after 9pm on Sunday after two salvage trains removed the compartments from the main lines, train examiner SM Akhtar Hossain and Station Master of Hasanpur Railway Station Mong Marma said.
Work to remove the other compartments is underway, they said,
Officer-in-charge of Laksham Railway Police Station Jashim Uddin said, the Dhaka bound freight train was stationed in a line on the Hasanpur station.
Dhaka- bound Sonar Bangla Express from Chattagram wrongly entered the same line and hit the rear side of the freight train at around 6:22pm.
