Trains collide, 15 dead

DHAKA - Rescuers in Bangladesh were battling on Tuesday to pull passengers from mangled wreckage after a head-on collision of two trains killed at least 15 people and injured more than 40.

A train heading for the southern port city of Chittagong and one bound for Dhaka collided at around 3am (2100 GMT) in Brahmanbaria, about 100 km (60 miles) east of the capital, crumpling three compartments of the Chittagongbound train.

“So far, 15 bodies have been recovered,” district official Hayat Ud Dowlah Khan told Reuters.