At least 10 people were killed and 100+ were injured in a head-on train collision in Bangladesh on 08.12.2010 Wednesday. The death tolls as 10 and 13 respectively. Both outlets said more than 100 people were injured. The accident occurred in a railway station at Narsingdi at 5 pm ( 11 am GMT), 55 km (35 miles) northeast of the capital Dhaka, when a passenger train slammed into another stationary passenger train, The impact derailed most of the carriages of the trains. A reporter at the scene said he saw nearly 10 bodies and many others were injured, as three carriages of the stationary train were badly mangled. Rescue trains were sent to the scene to remove the wreckage. A fire service official said the death toll may rise as more than 50 badly injured people had already been taken to local hospitals. Hundreds of people thronged the scene looking for their relatives traveling in the trains. An army rescue team joined the operation, but a sudden, unseasonable downpour was hampering efforts to pull victims out of the wreckage. Rail services between Dhaka and the country's main port, Chittagong, remained suspended after the accident.
"We can so far confirm seven casualties, including three bodies stuck in a mangled carriage," Akkasuddin Bhuiyan, police superintendent of Narsingdi, told Reuters and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed her sympathy for the victims. We also Reported that its was one of the Deadleast Train crash in Bangladesh.
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