Seventeen dead and around 100 injured are the so far toll of the head-on collision between two trains in Bangladesh.

The rail accident occurred near the town of Bhairab, 60 kilometers northeast of the capital Dhaka, when a freight and a passenger train collided head-on under unclear circumstances.

In a video broadcast by the Channel 24 network, the frantic efforts of rescuers to locate survivors at the scene of the train tragedy are recorded. At the same time, hundreds of people rushed to the scene, eagerly looking for their loved ones.

“We rescued two people alive,” who were trapped in an overturned wagon, a Red Crescent volunteer said.

Nazmul Islam, an official of the state-run Bangladesh Railways, told reporters that the freight train violated a signal.

“We have recovered 17 bodies, while more than 100 people have been injured,” a local official, Satiqur Rahman, told Agence France-Presse (AFP). The death toll is expected to rise in the coming hours, as rescuers reported finding lifeless bodies inside the battered railcars.