45-year-old Fahima Begum’s husband died in a road accident in which a train hit a bus at a level crossing in Rampura area of Kalihati upazila, in Tangail. “I was six months pregnant when the accident happened. The loss was so shocking and painful that I had a miscarriage”. Tangail, Bangladesh. September 20, 2011. One of a set of images from the Photo Story, Tears on Highways, by Noor Alam.

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