United News of Bangladesh

Three girls returning home from school were run over by a speeding train in Cumilla on Wednesday. The three -- Meem (12), and Tashifa and Rima, both aged 11 -- were students of Bijoypur Government Primary School in Cumilla's Sadar Dakkhin upazila. The unaccompanied minors were supposed to cross the Bijoypur level crossing in the upazila on the way home but they took a shortcut that claimed their lives, police said. Read: Fire breaks out at 2 Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar The accident occurred around 11.45am when the Chattogram-bound Mahanagar Probhati train from Dhaka hit the three while they were crossing the railway track near the level crossing, said Proshanto Pal, additional superintendent of Cumilla Police. On information, police rushed to the spot and took the bodies into custody. As the news of the accident spread like wildfire, angry locals blocked the Cumilla-Noakhali railway tracks, disrupting vehicular movement in the upazila too.