Gazipur, May 3 -- Two platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed to assist in the rescue work of two trains derailed after a commuter train crashed into an oil-carrying train in Joydebpur Railway junction in Gazipur on Friday morning.

The information came in a media release signed by Shariful Islam, public relations officer of the BGB headquarters in Dhaka.

The paramilitary members led by BGB-63 commander would remain deployed to maintain law and order and assist in the rescue operation, it reads.

Earlier in the morning, the Dhaka-bound Tangail commuter train smashed into Gazipur-bound freight train allegedly due to an error of the signalman on the south end of the railway junction.

Several compartments of both the t...