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Aftershock rocks Bangladesh as quake death toll rises to 10

Relatives break down in tears at Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital after identifying the bodies of victims who were killed when the rooftop railing of a five-storey building collapsed in the Armanitola area of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on November 21, 2025, following an earthquake. [AFP]

A low-magnitude tremor hit Bangladesh on Saturday, the national meterological service said, a day after a powerful earthquake struck outside the capital Dhaka and killed at least 10 people.

Updating earlier tolls from Friday's 5.5-magnitude quake, disaster management official Ishtiaqe Ahmed told AFP that "the number of casualties has reached 10, while a few hundreds were injured."

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