A school teacher named Runa Laila, 47, has died after being hit by the Rupsha Express train in Parbatipur, Dinajpur.
The incident took place at around 11:30am on Wednesday (November 4) in the Rahmatnagar railway colony area next to the Gonokobor slum, north of Parbatipur railway station.
Runa Laila taught Bangla at Al-Faruk School in Saidpur.
Parbatipur railway GRP police station officer-in-charge (OC) Mahamudun Nabi confirmed the death.
She had been seen sitting beside the railway line near the Gulpara level crossing on Wednesday morning. Noticing her unusual behaviour, some local people asked her to leave. At around 11:30am she was hit by the Rupsha Express and died. Police believe at first sight that she took her own life.
OC Mahamudun Nabi said the teacher’s body had been recovered and sent to the morgue of Dinajpur Medical College Hospital for an autopsy.
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