Govt to compensate family after fatal metro rail accident

ByEnigma 808

A family will receive 500,000 taka after their relative died on Sunday when a bearing pad dropped from an elevated metro station in Farmgate. The government will also offer employment to an unemployed relative at the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited, the metro operator.

Road Transport and Bridges Adviser Fouzul Kabir Khan made the announcement at the accident site. Police identified the victim as Abul Kalam from Shariatpur’s Naria upazila. Two others sustained injuries in the incident.

Metro services stopped immediately and remain suspended indefinitely. General Manager Iftikhar Hossain could not say when trains would run again. A five-member committee led by Bridges Division Secretary Mohammad Abdur Rouf will investigate and report within two weeks.

This marks the second time a 140-kilogram bearing pad has fallen from the Farmgate station in roughly one year. The previous incident occurred in September and halted operations for 11 hours but caused no deaths. Officials acknowledged the structural design provides no mechanism to secure the pads that absorb weight from passing trains.

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