At least four people were killed after an intercity Benapole Express train caught fire in Bangladesh s Gopibagh on Friday night. Local media reported that some Indian citizens were also travelling in the train.
At least four people, including two children, were killed and many injured in Dhaka on Friday when suspected arsonists set on fire a passenger train coming from Benapole, a port city bordering India
Bangladesh's main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has sought a United Nations-supervised probe into Friday's train fire incident, calling the incident a 'pre-planned sabotage'.
Witnesses said the train caught fire at Gopibagh, in an old part of Dhaka not far from the megacity s main rail terminal. An unnamed rescuer told private broadcaster Somoy TV that hundreds of people had rushed to pull people out of the burning train. "We rescued many. But the fire spread quickly," he said.