Dhaka | Dhaka City | Bangladeshi News
Dhaka | Dhaka City | Bangladeshi News
At least 20 people, including 17 workers of a garment factory, were injured while leaving a building in Chaudagram upazila of Cumilla district during the earthquake that hit different parts of the country on Saturday morning. Trinath Saha, in-charge of Chaudagram police station, said that seventeen workers of a garment factory located in Mirswani area […]
Locals dug through the debris in the dark to rescue survivors from the debris of collapsed houses and buildings, while others remained outside for safety. The earthquake was felt as far away as New Delhi, the capital of India, about 500 kilometers (310 mi) from the epicenter. “The death toll from the earthquake has reached […]
At least 119 people were killed in an overnight earthquake in a remote area of Nepal, officials said Saturday, while security forces were deployed to assist in rescue efforts. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck the far west of the Himalayan country late Friday and was measured at a depth of only 18 kilometers (11 miles) by […]
Earthquakes are common in Papua New Guinea, but rarely cause widespread damage. Outside major towns and cities, most areas are sparsely populated, and what buildings there are are made of wood. But some earthquakes are more destructive. In April, at least seven people were killed when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the jungle-covered region of […]
Two earthquakes struck western Nepal on Tuesday, injuring 11 people, damaging homes and causing landslides that blocked a major highway, officials said. Landslides following earthquakes of magnitude 6.3 and 5.3 in Bajhang district, bordering India, blocked roads in the southern plains, Interior Ministry official Ram Acharya told Reuters. The earthquakes, centered in Talkot and Chainpur, […]
Last September, there were three earthquakes in the country. On September 17, an earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale was felt in various parts of the country including Dhaka. Its epicenter was at Tangail, 59 km northwest of Dhaka. Earlier on September 11, an earthquake was felt in Sylhet region located on the India-Myanmar […]
The people who had carefully removed the dirt with their hands also found his phone and handed it over to the grieving man. All around him the village of Tikht, once home to at least 100 families, was a jumble of logs, pieces of masonry as well as broken plates, shoes and the occasional intricately […]
Khadija Fairouze’s face was swollen from crying as she accompanied relatives and neighbors carrying possessions across rock-strewn roads. They lost their daughter and three grandchildren, ages 4 to 11, when their house collapsed while they were sleeping, less than 48 hours earlier. “There is nothing left. Everything fell apart,” said his sister, Hafida Fairouze. The […]
It said Moroccan armed forces would deploy rescue teams to provide clean drinking water, food supplies, tents and blankets to affected areas. Turkey, where a powerful earthquake in February killed more than 50,000 people, was among the countries to express solidarity and offer aid. Algeria, which cut ties with Morocco in 2021 after tensions between […]
