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Authorities resumed train services after two and a half hours of suspension following a derailment in capital Dhaka’s Banani on Thursday afternoon.
By evening the second line would also be opened, Hossain said.
The train services had to be suspended in Dhaka after a freight train jumped the tracks at Banani.
One rickshaw-puller was killed and five others were injured when a container carriage broke loose and rammed into a nearby slum.
Of the two railway tracks, one was operational after the derailment but later it was blocked by a salvage train.
Railway Inspector (Traffic) Humayun Kabir earlier told bdnews24.com that trains did commute through one line after the accident, but a rescue train from Kamalapur Railway Station arrived around 2:30pm. So train services to and from Dhaka remained suspended.
Six people, including three children and a woman, were rescued from the debris. One of those rescued later died, police said.
Kabir said that two carriage vans and one container van of the train went off the rails near Sainik Club in Banani in the morning. The train had left the Kamalapur Railway Station for Chittagong at 11:35am.
The cause of the derailment is not yet clear.
But railway officials say sabotage is unlikely and a technical snag could have caused it.
Railway Mate Abdul Ali told bdnews24.com at the spot that he suspected the ‘airbox’ had gone defunct causing wheels to be jammed. This, he said, could have led to the derailment.
The train services had to be suspended in Dhaka after a freight train jumped the tracks at Banani.
One rickshaw-puller was killed and five others were injured when a container carriage broke loose and rammed into a nearby slum.
Of the two railway tracks, one was operational after the derailment but later it was blocked by a salvage train.
Railway Inspector (Traffic) Humayun Kabir earlier told bdnews24.com that trains did commute through one line after the accident, but a rescue train from Kamalapur Railway Station arrived around 2:30pm. So train services to and from Dhaka remained suspended.
Six people, including three children and a woman, were rescued from the debris. One of those rescued later died, police said.
Kabir said that two carriage vans and one container van of the train went off the rails near Sainik Club in Banani in the morning. The train had left the Kamalapur Railway Station for Chittagong at 11:35am.
The cause of the derailment is not yet clear.
But railway officials say sabotage is unlikely and a technical snag could have caused it.
Railway Mate Abdul Ali told bdnews24.com at the spot that he suspected the ‘airbox’ had gone defunct causing wheels to be jammed. This, he said, could have led to the derailment.
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