Two people were killed when a train ran them over while they were crossing a railway bridge ignoring the police at Akhaura in Brahmanbaria.
The incident took place around 8:30pm on Thursday at Kharampur railway bridge on the Akhaura-Sylhet bypass railway line, police said.
The deceased was identified as Shukur Mia, 60. He is the son of Gazi Mia of Doari village under Madhabi upazila of Narsingdi. The identity of the other deceased could not be known immediately.
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 signalled the arrival of the train.
Although most of the people got down the railway bridge, the two men tried to cross the bridge and were run over 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 and recovered the bodies of the two men from the river after an hour of endeavour.
