At least five people have been killed, including one child, and more than 450 injured after a 5.5 magnitude earthquake hit Bangladesh.
The epicentre of the earthquake was close to the Narsingdi district, about 30 kilometres (18.6 miles) from the capital, Dhaka.
People rushed from residential buildings as buildings shook and makeshift structures collapsed. At least 10 students were injured in a stampede as they tried to leave Dhaka University on Friday.
We have never experienced an earthquake this powerful in the last five years, said the country's environmental adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan.
At least three people were killed when a railing and debris fell from a five-storey building in Dhaka's Armanitola area, deputy police commissioner Mallik Ahsan Uddin Sami said.
Nitai Chandra De Sarkar, director of the department's monitoring division, reported that 461 people have been injured across the country, including 252 in the Gazipur district, north of Dhaka.
Sarker told the BBC: Our main task at the moment is to assess casualties and damage. We are not yet seeing the challenge of rescue from the rubble or debris management at that level.
Bengali Sadman Sakib shared: I have never felt such tremor in my 30 years of life. We were at the office when the furniture started shaking.
A student named Abdullah, who was asleep during the earthquake, described how the whole building was shaking.
Tremors were also felt in eastern Indian states bordering Bangladesh, but no major damage was reported there. The earthquake even halted a cricket test match involving Ireland temporarily, with players and coaches taking shelter amid the tremors.
Ireland's head coach Heinrich Malan recounted his past experiences with quakes and expressed hope that the damages were minimal.
