Derailment halts train services in Sylhet

Rail communications of Sylhet with the rest of the country remained halted from Sunday morning as a freight train derailed at Baramchal in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar.

A bogie of the train carrying fertiliser veered off the tracks near the outer signal of Baramchal Railway Station around 10:15 am.

Following the derailment, train services on Sylhet-Dhaka and Sylhet-Chattogram routes remained suspended, said Baramchal Station Master Kazol Mahmud.

The derailment also forced to suspend the vehicular movement on Brahmanbazar-Fenchuganj road as the train blocked it, he said.

On information, a relief train from Kulaura rushed in to salvage the derailed bogie, he said.