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Two motorcyclists were killed as a train hit their motorbike at a level crossing at Ambag Kholapara in Gazipur city on Dhaka-Rajshahi rail line on Thursday night. The deceased were Hafizur Rahman Ripon,45, and Mahmudul Hasan Chanchal,38, of Harinachala Housing area in the Konabari police station of Gazipur.
Hafizur was a jute trader while Mahmudul worked at a hospital. According to police and witnesses said when Hafizur and Mahmudul were passing the level crossing a Dhaka-bound train hit their motorbike, leaving them dead on the spot.
Sub-Inspector (SI) Nadir Uj-Jaman, in-charge of the Joydebpur Railway Junction Police Camp said, the bodies were handed over to their families without an autopsy.
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