Five killed and more than 450 injured in Bangladesh earthquake

At the very least 5 folks have been killed, together with one youngster, 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 had been injured in a stampede as they tried to go away Dhaka College on Friday.

“Now we have 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 folks had 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 folks have been reported injured throughout the nation, together with 252 within the Gazipur district, north of Dhaka.

Sarker informed the BBC: “Our essential job in the intervening time is to evaluate casualties and injury. We aren’t but seeing the problem of rescue from the rubble or particles administration at that degree.”

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

“We rushed down the steps on the road and noticed different folks on the street already.”

A pupil known as Abdullah, who was sleeping on the time of the earthquake, informed Reuters the “complete constructing was shaking”.

Tremors had been felt in japanese Indian states bordering Bangladesh, however there have been no reviews of main injury.

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

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 dwelling in New Zealand.

“It is by no means a pleasant feeling and also you’re making an attempt to know what is going on within the second round you, but in addition the larger impacts about the place the earthquake struck.

“Every little 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 injury accomplished.”