Published: 01:13 AM, 23 November 2025
6 DU students hurt amid tremor panic
The third tremor in Bangladesh has left six Dhaka University students injured as they rushed out of their residential halls in panic.
On Saturday, three students were hurt at Shamsun Nahar Hall, while Bangladesh-Kuwait Maitree, Begum Rokeya, and Surja Sen halls each reported one injury.
Five of the six injured students are women.
Among them, Israt Jahan Sumona, literary affairs secretary of the Shamsun Nahar Hall student union, was seriously injured while descending the stairs and is suspected to have broken her leg, bdnews24 reports.
Two others from the hall were also hurt. All were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, confirmed Anika Tasnim, a resident student.
In Kuwait Maitree Hall, one student was injured while coming down from the upper floor, according to resident student Shahida Akter Prabha.
Begum Rokeya Hall resident Sumaiya Anzum Sharmin said another student fainted in panic and sustained minor injuries. She is also being taken to hospital.
At Surja Sen Hall, Mamunur Rashid said he hurt his hand after being jostled while going downstairs.
The country was shaken again by an earthquake on Saturday, just seven and a half an hours after a light tremor earlier in the day.
Around 6:06pm, residents in the capital Dhaka and surrounding districts felt the tremor.
About an hour later, the city's Fire Service said it had received no reports of casualties or damage from the mild quake.
According to the Earthquake Monitoring Centre of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, the evening tremor was of mild intensity, measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale.
Rubaiyat Kabir, an officer at the centre, said in a statement that the epicentre was in Badda.
Earlier at 10:36am, another minor tremor had shaken parts of the country. That quake measured 3.3 on the Richter scale.
It was initially reported to have originated near Baipail in Savar, but was later confirmed by the monitoring agency as having its epicentre in Palash, Narsingdi.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) gave a different reading for the evening quake, reporting a magnitude of 4.3, with the epicentre located 11km west of Narsingdi, at a depth of 10km.
The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) also recorded the tremor, placing its magnitude at 3.7 and the epicentre about 8km north-northeast of Dhaka.
Fire Service duty officer Anisur Rahman confirmed that no emergency calls had been received.
Saturday's back-to-back tremors came less than 24 hours after the country suffered its deadliest earthquake in decades.
On Friday at 10:38am, a 5.7 magnitude quake struck with its epicentre in Narsingdi's Madhabdi, 13km from Dhaka, at a depth of 10km.
The quake killed at least 10 people in three districts and injured more than 600.
Numerous buildings in the capital developed cracks, while some partially tilted.
