DHAKA: At least 12 people were killed and 28 others injured in a collision between two passenger trains in Bangladesh’s Brahmanbaria district, some 109 kilometers northeast of Dhaka, police said.

People gather around the site of a train derailment in Moulvibazar district, some 203 km away from the capital Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 24, 2019. The train derailment in northeastern Bangladesh has killed at least four people and injured about 100 others, an official said Monday. According to the official, one of the carriages of the train, Upaban Express, heading to Dhaka from northeaster Sylhet city, fell into a canal while two others fell close to the canal's banks. XINHUA PHOTO

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