Train hits truck: Death toll reaches six 

A Chattogram-bound train hit a truck at a level crossing in Feni's Chhagalnaiya upazila on Friday morning. Death toll from the accident has reached six.

The gateman was absent from his duty, so the bar was not lowered when the truck got onto the railway tracks at the level crossing between Fazilpur and Muhuriganj railway stations around 8:30am, police said.

The deceased were identified as Md Mizan, 32, of Barishal's Ujirpur upazila; Abul Khayer, 38, and his son Ashiq, of Cumilla's Laksham upazila; and Dil Mohammad, Rifat and Sazzad of Cumilla's Chauddagram upazila.

Mizan was driving the truck, while the other victims were train passengers riding on the outside of the locomotive, said Md Shah Alam, assistant sub-inspector of Feni Railway Police Camp.