Train communication with Dhaka restored following derailment

Train communication with Dhaka and the rest of the country resumed on Friday morning following the derailment of a Panchagarh-bound train shortly after it had left Dhaka’s Kamalapur rail station late Thursday.

Sources at the station said the Panchagarh Express was the last train on the departure schedule from the station on Thursday. The train left it around 12:05 am and derailed within 25 minutes in the Shahjahanpur area, snapping rail communication.

Though there were scheduled trains to depart from the station at 6 am, those were delayed two hours due to the derailment.

The rail communication was restored around 8 am on a limited scale after the derailed bogies of the train were removed from the track, according to the Kamalapur station sources.