Two people, including a retired female teacher, died in Pabna and Tangail amid panic as a strong earthquake shook the country on Saturday noon. In Pabna, panic-stricken Rokeya Khatun, 67, wife of Sohrab Uddin, a resident of Shahid Siddique Road of the town, died of cardiac arrest while she was hurriedly coming out from a building during the earthquake. Rokeya was a retired teacher of Gopalpur Primary School and a secretary of poura Awami League. Meanwhile, in Tangail, Morina Begum,22, a resident of Sayedpur of Mirzapur upazila, got panicked and fainted when she saw her house shaking during the tremor. She was rushed to Kumudini Hospital where doctors declared her dead, said Mirzapur thana officer-in-charge Najmul Haq Bhuiyan.
