Sylhet rail link with Dhaka, Ctg resumes

Rail communications between Sylhet and other parts of the country resumed Sunday morning after being suspended for ten hours. Around 11pm Saturday, two compartments of a Demu (Diesel Electric Multiple Unit) train derailed in Lawachhara near Vanugachh rail station. A tree had fallen on the track during a storm, severing rail connections with Sylhet. No casualties were reported in the incident which took place in Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar. Two relief trains from Akhaura and Kulaura reached the area around 8am Sunday morning and helped restore the train track, according to Shakhayat Hossain, station master of Sreemangal railway station. Chittagong-bound Udayan Express, Dhaka-bound Upaban Express were stranded at Kulaura station and Sylhet station, inconveniencing passengers to no end. Upaban Express left Sylhet station around 10 am for Dhaka, said the railway station master.