13 killed as trains hit buses in Bangladesh

Two trains have ploughed into packed buses at unmanned rail crossings in separate accidents in Bangladesh today, killing at least 13 people and injuring 45, police and news reports said.

Police recovered eight bodies from the wreckage of one bus in Comilla district, 55 miles east of the capital Dhaka, United News of Bangladesh news agency reported.

Another 25 people were reported injured in the accident at an unmanned level crossing and some of them have been taken to hospital in a serious condition, the agency said quoting unnamed police officials.

In the second accident, five people died and 20 were injured in Jessore district, 85 miles west of the capital, police officer Ismail Hossain said.

The guard at the crossing had left his post when the accident occurred, he said.

The dead and the injured were all bus passengers.