Walking along train lines costs 2 lives
Two people, including a visually impaired man, were killed when a train ran them over in the capital's Banani yesterday.
One of the victims was identified as Mizanur Rahman, 50, a tea vendor of Badda area. The identity of the visually impaired, aged around 45, could not be known.
Quoting witnesses, Ali Akbar, sub-inspector of Dhaka Railway Police Station, said the two were walking on the rail lines in the morning.
The accident happened near Banani Railway Station around 8:30am when the Chittagong-bound Mahanagar Probhati train was passing, he said.
Both the men died on the spot, said witnesses.
A man who saw the incident from a distance said Mizanur went under the train while trying to save the other man, the SI added.
The body of the unidentified man, who was wearing a lungi, was sent Dhaka Medical College morgue for an autopsy.
Locals found a mobile phone in Mizanur's pocket and made a call to his younger brother Babul Islam who identified the body at Dhaka Railway Police Station in Kamalapur.
Babul's wife Rehana Begum said Mizanur lived at Mirpur-11 although his tea stall was in Badda.
Rehana could not say why Mizanur went to Banani early in the morning.
Mizanur was from Pirojpur and had been living in the city for quite a long time, she added.
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