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At least seven people, including two children, were killed and around 100 injured when a magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Bangladesh on Friday, the government said, with buildings damaged in many areas including the densely populated capital Dhaka.
Tremors were felt in eastern states in neighbouring India that border Bangladesh, but there were no immediate reports of major damage there, authorities said.
Muhammad Yunus, the head of Bangladesh’s interim government, said the injured included students from Dhaka University, factory workers in the city of Gazipur and residents of Narsingdi, the epicentre of the earthquake.
Dhaka-based DBC Television said two children were among the dead. The fatalities occurred mostly from collapsed roofs and walls.

Earlier, police said three people had been killed when the railing of a six-storey building collapsed during the earthquake.
The three were shopping at a butcher’s shop in Armanitola, an area of Dhaka’s old city, and were taken to a hospital where they were pronounced dead, Prothom Alo newspaper said.
The Fire Service and Civil Defence department deployed firefighters to locations where people reported tilting buildings, as well as to a fire in Dhaka’s Baridhara neighbourhood.
Television stations broadcast footage of worried and crying relatives as the victims were brought to medical facilities, including at the state-run Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Dhaka University students jumped from the upper floors of their dorms during the quake.
Several of the injured taken to hospital from Narsingdi, about 40km (25 miles) east of Dhaka, were in a critical condition, health adviser Nurjahan Begum told reporters.
‘Everyone was terrified’
Dhaka residents rushed out of their homes as buildings shook and some makeshift structures collapsed, witnesses said.
“We felt a strong jolt and buildings were shaking like trees,” said resident Suman Rahman. “Staircases were jammed as people rushed down. Everyone was terrified, children were crying.”
The fire department said some people had been injured when bricks and loose cement fell from buildings that were under construction.

“I have never felt such a tremor in my life. We were at the office when the furniture started shaking. We rushed down the stairs to the street and saw other people on the road already,” said Sadman Sakib, who works in Dhaka.
The government was closely monitoring the situation and had directed departments to intensify rescue operations in affected areas, Yunus’ office said in the statement.
According to the USGS, though northern and southeastern Bangladesh are seismically active regions because of interactions between the India and Eurasia plates, the central region of the country is less active.
The USGS says that since 1950, only 14 earthquakes – with a magnitude of 5.5 and including two magnitude 6 quakes – have occurred within a 250km (156 mile) radius of Friday’s earthquake.
Experts warn that Bangladesh, a country of 170 million people, is less prepared for higher-magnitude quakes that could cause a lot of destruction.
Additional reporting by Associated Press


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‘Buildings were shaking like trees,’ a witness said of the strong tremors, which were felt in neighbouring India


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2 children among dead as Bangladesh rattled by magnitude 5.7 earthquake

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}‘Buildings were shaking like trees,’ a witness said of the strong tremors, which were felt in neighbouring India

‘Buildings were shaking like trees,’ a witness said of the strong tremors, which were felt in neighbouring India