Police recovered the charred bodies of 35-year-old Nadira Akter from Netrakona district and her three-year-old son from a bogie of Dhaka-bound ‘Mohonganj Express’ train which was set on fire in Dhaka’s Tejgaon Rail Station early Tuesday.
Talking to UNB Nadira’s brother Habibur Rahman Habib, who was also travelling in the same train with her sister and two nephews, said Nadira along with her two children—Yeasin, 3 and Fahim, 8, came to their home at Baruna village in sadar upazila from Dhaka on December 3.
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The train came under arson attack when Nadira along with her two sons and brother Habir was returning to her Dhaka residence by ‘Mohonganj Express’ train .
Her husband is a hardware businessman in Karwan Bazar.
“When the fire spread to the whole bogie, I managed to get off the train with Fahim but unfortunately Nadira and Yeasin failed to get off. They got trapped and could not be saved,” said Habib in a chocked voice.
Habibur said when the train stopped at Tejgaon station some people got down and two people who were behind their seat also got down.
“Later, when the train started to move we noticed the fire which soon spread to the bogie,” he said.
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At least four people including a child were killed as miscreants set fire to the Dhaka-bound Mohanganj Express train in the capital's Tejgaon Railway station area early Tuesday.
The identities of the two more victims, who lost their lives in the arson attack, could not be known yet.
Three carriages of the train were set on fire around 5:04 am and the firefighters tame the blaze around 6:45 am.