At least 11 dead, 100 injured in Tanzania earthquake: police

At least 11 people were killed and around 100 injured in Tanzania's Bukoba district when an earthquake hit the country today, a district police chief said.

"We currently have 11 people dead and more than 100 injured, several of whom have been hospitalised... Rescue operations are ongoing," Augustine Ollomi, the Kagera province police chief in charge of the Bukoba district said by telephone.