Six unidentified people were killed allegedly under the wheels of passenger trains in two separate incidents in Narsingdi district on Monday, police said.
Five people were killed in the Khakchak area under Raipura upazila in the early hours.Â
According to the railway police, locals found the severed bodies of the five men around 5:30am between the Hatubhanga and Methikanda railway stations in the upazila.
Four of them are believed to be between 20 and 25 years old, and one is between 30 and 35 years old.
Afsan Alam, additional superintendent of police, said that they found the bodies of five people scattered on the side of the Dhaka-bound rail line.
‘No one could identify them,’ he said, adding that train movement was normal in the area.
Bangladesh Railway general manager (east) Nazmul Islam said that after analysing the positions of the bodies, they assumed that the deceased people were on the rail track during the accident.
‘If they were on the train roof, they would have fallen beside the line but would not be crushed under the train wheels,’ he said.
Nazmul also said that they assume that the accident might have taken place when the Dhaka Mail train crossed the area in the early morning.
Starting from Chattogram at 11:45pm, the train reached Dhaka at 6:40am.
The general manager also said that a probe committee had been formed.
Narsingdi railway police outpost in-charge Shahidullah said that efforts were underway to identify the deceased.
An unnatural death case was filed at Bhairab railway station.
In a separate incident on the same day around 11:40am an unidentified person died after being hit by a train in the Srirampur railway gate area in Raipura town of the district.
Witnesses said that the person was sleeping on the track.
The Sylhet-bound Kalani Express crushed him under its wheels.
The identity of the approximately 30-year-old person could not be known immediately due to the disfigurement of his face.
Narsingdi Railway Police recovered the body.
In Bangladesh, deaths caused by train wheels are common, as many defy existing laws and use rail tracks.