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At slightest 10 radical were killed and implicit a 100 injured arsenic a massive earthquake of magnitude 5.7 jolted Dhaka and parts of the state connected Friday (November 21, 2025), damaging buildings, causing fires astatine respective places and sending panic among residents.
Officials said 4 of the victims died successful the superior Dhaka, 5 successful Narsingdi, the epicentre of the tremor, and 1 successful suburban stream larboard municipality of Narayanganj.
Media reports suggested that successful the concern municipality connected the outskirts of the superior Gazipur alone, astatine slightest 100 workers were injured astatine antithetic units arsenic they tried to unreserved retired of buildings during the tremor.
The Met bureau said the epicentre of the quake that struck astatine 10:38 a.m. (local time) was located immoderate 10 kilometres beneath the aboveground successful Narsingdi, which is astir 13 kilometres eastbound of the seismic centre successful Dhaka’s Agargaon area.
Dhaka’s Deputy Police Commissioner Mallik Ahsan Uddin Sami said, quoting the occurrence service, that astatine slightest 3 radical were killed aft a railing, bamboo scaffolding and debris of a five-storey gathering fell connected them astatine Old Dhaka’s Armanitola area.
A wide aerial presumption of an aged metropolis wherever roofs and walls collapsed aft an earthquake successful Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP
Mr. Sami confirmed that 1 of the deceased was a aesculapian pupil who was determination to bargain nutrient on with his mother. She is critically wounded, requiring an exigency surgery, helium added.
One of the dormant was an eight-year-old lad portion the media quoting the household members said his wounded begetter besides was declared dormant aboriginal by doctors astatine the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
The reports said among the dormant successful Dhaka was a 50-year-old backstage information defender who was killed aft a information of a building’s partition collapsed connected him during the earthquake.
Narsingdi territory medication successful a connection said 5 radical were killed and astatine slightest four, including a lad and his father, were critically injured.
In suburban Narayanganj, a babe died and her parent was earnestly wounder erstwhile a partition collapsed connected them.
In Sutrapur’s Swamibagh area, besides located successful Old Dhaka, an eight-storey gathering was reported to person leaned against different operation pursuing the earthquake, portion astatine the Kalabagan area, a seven-storey gathering looked tilted, though occurrence officials reported it remained structurally sound.
A occurrence broke retired astatine a residence successful Dhaka’s posh Baridhara country soon aft the tremor hit, but the firefighters could not instantly corroborate if it was linked to the earthquake.
Another occurrence astatine a residential gathering was reported from the Gazaria country of suburban Munshiganj, portion the occurrence work responded instantly to douse the blaze.
Reports of insignificant cracks appearing successful immoderate buildings person besides been received from respective areas successful the superior and its surrounding areas, including Narsingdi.
The reports suggested the quake besides damaged buildings and caused occurrence successful suburban Munshiganj, northwestern Rajshahi and southeastern Chattogram.
Experts person agelong said the hazard of large earthquakes was precocious successful Bangladesh due to the fact that of its determination connected progressive tectonic sheet boundaries, with galore of them saying a large earthquake is inevitable, though it could beryllium decades away.
The meteorology section officials said an earthquake of this magnitude truthful adjacent to Dhaka has ne'er happened earlier and feared if it had lasted conscionable 5-7 seconds longer, the fig of casualties and gathering collapses could person accrued manifold.
Earthquake adept Professor Mehedi Ahmed Ansary of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) said a tremor with a magnitude of 6 could illness astir structures successful the country.
“This tremor (on Friday) is an alarm doorbell for Bangladesh,” Mr. Ansary said.
