A 18-year-old youth died after falling from a speeding train in Chattogram on Friday morning. His identity could not be known immediately, said Md Khorshed Alam, an officer at Sitakunda railway police station. Read:Youth crushed under train in city The youth fell from the Chattogram-bound Sagarika Express in the Sheikh Para area, barely a kilometre from the Sitakunda railway station, at 8.45am and died on the spot, said eye-witnesses. "We have sent the body for an autopsy," said Khorshed.

A retired professor of Khulna University (KU) was killed falling off a running train on Saturday morning.