At least four people, including a newborn baby, were killed as a massive earthquake of magnitude 5.7 jolted Dhaka and parts of the country 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 epicentre of the quake that struck at 10:38 am (local time) was at Narsigndi on the northeastern 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’s Agargaon area.

Dhaka’s deputy police commissioner Mallik Ahsan Uddin Sami said, quoting the fire service,

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