Busy on phone, man run over by train

A man who was talking on the phone while walking on the railway track at Sholashahar in Chattogram city was crushed to death under the wheels of a train on Saturday, reports UNB.

The deceased was Shahin Alam, 42, son of Nizam Sarkar of Hili Land Port in Dinajpur district.

The accident occurred around 2:30pm when a train hit Shahin while he was walking along the rail tracks - a risky venture that far too many Bangladeshis seem to take on a daily basis without fully appreciating the risk factor.

To make matters worse, according to sub-inspector Jakir Hossain of Government Railway Police (GRP) station in Chittagong, Shahin was busy talking on his mobile phone when the accident took place.

On information, police recovered the body and sent it to Chittagong Medical College Hospital for autopsy, the SI added.