Monday’s trip of Sonar Bangla Express cancelled

Bangladesh Railway has cancelled the Monday’s Dhaka-Chattogram trip of Sonar Bangla Express due to an accident.

Director General of Bangladesh Railway Quamrul Ahsan confirmed the news on Sunday.

People, who had bought advance tickets for this trip on April 17, will travel on a special train that will leave Kamalapur Railway Station at 8:00am on April 19. If anyone wants to cancel their trip, they can do so via the BR online portal and they will be refunded, he said.

Dhaka-bound Sonar Bangla Express hit a freight train at Nangalkot of Cumilla causing seven carriages and the locomotive to derail on Sunday evening.