Five killed and more than 450 injured in Bangladesh earthquake

At the very least 5 individuals have been killed, together with one baby, and greater than 450 injured after a 5.5 magnitude earthquake hit Bangladesh.

The epicentre of the earthquake was near the Narsingdi district, about 30 kilometres (18.6 miles) from the capital, Dhaka.

Folks rushed from residential buildings as buildings shook and makeshift buildings collapsed. At the very least 10 college students have been injured in a stampede as they tried to go away Dhaka College on Friday.

“We’ve got by no means skilled an earthquake this highly effective within the final 5 years,” stated the nation’s environmental adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan.

At the very least three individuals have been killed when a railing and particles fell from a five-storey constructing in Dhaka’s Armanitola space, deputy police commissioner Mallik Ahsan Uddin Sami stated.

Nitai Chandra De Sarkar, director of the division’s monitoring division, stated 461 individuals have been reported injured throughout the nation, together with 252 within the Gazipur district, north of Dhaka.

Sarker instructed the BBC: “Our predominant process in the meanwhile is to evaluate casualties and harm. We’re not but seeing the problem of rescue from the rubble or particles administration at that stage.”

Bengali Sadman Sakib instructed Reuters information company: “I’ve by no means felt such tremor in my 30 years of life. We have been on the workplace when the furnishings began shaking.

“We rushed down the steps on the road and noticed different individuals on the highway already.”

A scholar referred to as Abdullah, who was sleeping on the time of the earthquake, instructed Reuters the “complete constructing was shaking”.

Tremors have been felt in japanese Indian states bordering Bangladesh, however there have been no experiences of main harm.

The earthquake induced Eire’s second cricket take a look at match in Bangladesh to cease quickly.

Coaches and gamers not concerned gathered on the boundary, whereas these within the stands took shelter. The sport was stopped for 3 minutes however play quickly resumed.

Eire’s head coach Heinrich Malan stated: “I have been concerned in a few earthquakes from my time residing in New Zealand.

“It is by no means a pleasant feeling and also you’re attempting to know what is occurring within the second round you, but additionally the larger impacts about the place the earthquake struck.

“Every thing stood nonetheless for a few minutes and we received again to enterprise, however we’re pondering of everybody and hoping there wasn’t an excessive amount of harm executed.”