A light earthquake shook Dhaka and several other parts of the country on Friday afternoon.
According to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD), the tremor was recorded at 4:53 pm with a magnitude of 4.0 on the Richter scale.
The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported that the epicentre was situated on the India-Bangladesh border, approximately 68 kilometres north of Cumilla city in Bangladesh and 26 kilometres north of Agartala city in the Indian state of Tripura.