Two earthquakes occurred in Bangladesh in 24 hours. A mild earthquake of 3.3 magnitude occurred in Dhaka on Saturday. Earlier, a 5.7 magnitude earthquake on Friday killed 9 people and injured more than 100.
Not even 24 hours passed that Bangladesh trembled once again. The earthquake monitoring and research center of Bangladesh Meteorological Department has recorded this tremor. A tremor measuring 3.3 on the Richter scale was recorded at Bypile in Ashulia, Dhaka at 10:36 am on Saturday.
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“It was a small-scale earthquake. Its epicenter was the bipile,” said Nizam Uddin Ahmed, an official at the Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre. Earlier, the death toll in the 5.7 magnitude earthquake that hit Bangladesh on Friday has increased to 9. More than a hundred people have been injured across the country in this earthquake. Chief Advisor to the Interim Government, Muhammad Yunus has expressed deep sorrow over the loss of life and property in the earthquake.
In Dhaka, bricks and tiles fell from the side wall and balcony of an 8-storey building in the Kasaituli area of Armanitola, where there was a beef shop. Customers and passersby were injured in this incident. Even before the fire service arrived, the local people took him to the hospital. When taken to the hospital, the doctor declared three people dead. Maqsood (50), a security guard of an under-construction building in Mughada Medinabagh, was killed when the railing fell on him. The office of the Chief Advisor said that the deceased was a resident of Ramgati Upazila of Lakshmipur district.
In Narsingdi, according to initial information, more than a hundred people have been injured at different places in the district and four people have died so far while hastily descending from tall buildings due to fear of earthquake. Four people were injured when construction material fell from an under-construction building at Gabtali in Chinishpur Union of Sadar Upazila; Among them, two people with serious head injuries were sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for treatment. Of the two sent, the doctor on duty at Dhaka Medical declared the child Hafiz Omar (8 years old) dead and said that the condition of his father Deloar Hossain Ujjwal was critical. An elderly man named Kazem Ali Bhuiyan (75) of Malita Paschimpada village of Charsindur union of Palash upazila of Narsingdi died on the way to the district hospital after getting buried under a mud house. Nasiruddin (60), a resident of Uchhlampada Nayapada village of Danga Union of Palash upazila, is also among the dead.