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Three students run over by train in Cumilla die

News Desk Accidents 2022-03-09, 3:00pm

Train of Bangladesh Railway. UNB



Three students have died after they were run over by a train in Cumilla’s Sadar South Upazila.
The accident occurred around noon on Wednesday at the Bijoypur Level Crossing on the Dhaka-Chattogram rail line, said Md Jashim Uddin Khandker, chief of Laksam Railway Police Station.
Following the accident, agitated locals blocked the Cumilla-Noakhali Regional Highway.