All Train Services to Be Suspended from This Evening

All train services will be suspended from this evening in a bid to prevent coronavirus spreading, railway minister Nurul Islam Sujan said.

"We're going to implement the government's decision to halt all public transport operations. So, we're suspending all train service operations from today until further notice," he said today at a Rail Bhaban press conference.

However, the operation of freight trains would remain as it is, he said.

Though they are suspending rail operation from today, the minister said it could take several hours as the trains that left their stations [say for Panchagarh] would return from there Dhaka, he said.

Senior Secretary Mofazzel Hossain of the Railways Ministry and General Director Md Shamsuzzaman of Bangladesh Railway joined the emergency press briefing.