AT LEAST six people were killed and several injured as a massive earthquake of magnitude 5.7 jolted Dhaka and parts of the country on Friday, damaging buildings, causing fires at several places and sending panic among residents. Three people were killed in Dhaka, while the fourth died in the suburban river port town of Narayanganj, officials said, as local media reported injuries to at least 50 people across the country.

 

The other two deaths were reported from Narsingdi, where the epicentre was located some 10 kilometres beneath the surface. The epicentre of the quake that struck at 10:38 am (local time) was at Narsigndi on the north-eastern outskirts of Dhaka at a depth of 10 kilometres, Bangladesh’s meteorology department said. The place is around 13 kilometres east of the seismic centre in Dhaka. Tremors felt in WB, N-E: Tremors were felt across West Bengal and parts of north-east on Friday, as a quake of magnitude 5.7 jolted Bangladesh’s Narsingdi.