DAR ES SALAAM - At least 11 people were killed and around 100 injured in Tanzania's Bukoba district when an earthquake hit the country on Saturday, a district police chief told AFP. Residents of the Tanzanian town of Bukoba, near the epicentre, had earlier told AFP that some houses there had caved in. The earthquake measured 5.7 and was felt in nearby Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Kenya, the US Geological Survey said. "The walls of my home shook as well as the fridge and the cupboards," also said an AFP correspondent in the Ugandan capital Kampala. Earthquakes are fairly common in the Great Lakes region but are almost always of low intensity.

Source: Bangkok Post September 10, 2016 17:45 UTC