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Train services between Dhaka and northern Bangladesh have been suspended after a carriage of the Nilsagar Express derailed at Mahera in Mirzapur, Tangail, on Thursday morning.
The incident occurred at around 9:30am, leaving several trains stranded at different stations and causing suffering for passengers travelling in the region.
Sohel Rana, station master at Mahera Railway Station in Mirzapur, said the Nilsagar Express had left Dhaka for Chilahati when a wheel of one of its rear carriages came off the tracks near Mahera station.
The derailment damaged a block point, disrupting train services in the area and leaving trains stranded at several stations.