One dies as two trains collide at Kamalapur

June 23, 2009

Railway security guard Nahid Hossain died in hospital after being injured during a head-on collision at Kamalapur Station between the Mahanagar Probhati Intercity and the Isha Kha Express on Monday.

Several people were injured and at least three-security guards Abdur Rahman, 28, and Nahid Hossain, 30 and passenger Rafiqul Islam, 40-were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital immediately after the accident.
Railway authorities have suspended two Kamalapur Station managers after a head-on collision between the Mahanagar Probhati Intercity and the Isha Kha Express on Monday.
Platform station manager Khademul Bashar and cabin station manager Saiful Islam were suspended “for their failure to properly signal the Probhati”, TA Chowdhury, an additional director general of the railway, told bdnews24.com.
Another additional director general Qazi Asadullah said they were suspended following the primary investigation of by rail authorities including the director general.
Director general Md Belayet Hossain, TA Chowdhury, Qazi Asadulalh and others visited the accident site at Kamalapur station in the wake of the collision.
“The railway’s top officials think that the accident took place due to wrong signalling. These two people were responsible for maintaining signals to the train,” Md Shahjahan, a joint director general, told bdnews24.com.
The Mahanagar Probhati Intercity, coming from Chittagong, ran into the Mymensingh-bound Isha Kha Express at around 2.30pm, as the latter was waiting to pull out of the capital’s busy central terminus.
Railway authorities have formed a four-member committee to investigate exact cause of the accident.
Chief engineer (east) Noor Mohammad is heading the probe body, said officials.
Chief mechanical engineer (east) Ratan Kumar Dey, chief operating superintendent Shah Mohammad Zahir and chief of signal and telecom (east) Shahid Alam Khandker were the other members.
Rail chief Belayet Hossain said authorities were primarily assuming signal failure caused two trains to collide head-on at Kamalapur Station on Monday.

One dies as two trains collide at Kamalapur

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