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At least three people were killed and ten others injured on Friday after a brick-built rooftop railing of an eight-storey building collapsed in Armanitola area of Dhaka after a 5.5-magnitude earthquake jolted several parts of Bangladesh, The Daily Star reported.

According to local reports, a portion of the railing broke off and fell onto a butcher’s stall on the street below, hitting customers and pedestrians passing through the crowded lane.

Assistant Sub-Inspector Zakaria Hossain Nayon said the three seriously injured pedestrians were taken to the hospital but could not be saved. “They were brought in critical condition. Doctors declared them dead on arrival,” he informed the Fire Service.

Sub-Inspector Ashish Kumar of Bangshal Police Station said the collapse took place

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