A minimum of 19 individuals have died and 164 had been injured after a Bangladeshi air drive coaching jet crashed into a faculty campus within the capital, Dhaka.
Footage from the scene at Milestone Faculty and School within the northern suburb of Uttara exhibits an enormous fireplace and a thick plume of smoke, after the plane slammed right into a two-storey college constructing.
The armed forces stated in an announcement on Fb that the F-7 jet, skilled a mechanical fault after taking off for a coaching train simply after 13:00 native time. The pilot was amongst these killed, the air drive added.
Greater than 50 individuals, together with youngsters and adults, had been taken to hospital with burns, a health care provider on the Nationwide Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgical procedure informed reporters.
The age vary for college kids attending the college is between 4 and 18 years outdated.
A instructor on the faculty, Rezaul Islam, informed BBC Bangla that he noticed the airplane “straight” hit the constructing.
One other instructor, Masud Tarik, informed Reuters that he heard an explosion: “After I regarded again, I solely noticed fireplace and smoke… There have been many guardians and children right here.”
A scholar stated he noticed the airplane hit the constructing “proper in entrance of my eyes”.
The nation’s fireplace service stated on social media it had 9 models on the scene, together with six ambulances.
Pictures from the scene present scores of emergency service employees sorting by means of charred rubble to try to discover survivors.
In a single photograph, fireplace fighters are carrying a physique away from the constructing.
Members of the general public will be additionally seen standing on high of surrounding buildings, watching on.
Muhammad Yunus, the chief of Bangladesh’s interim authorities, stated “crucial measures” could be taken to analyze the reason for the incident and “guarantee all types of help”.
“It is a second of deep sorrow for the nation. I want the injured a speedy restoration and instruct all authorities, together with the hospitals involved, to take care of the scenario with utmost significance,” he stated in a submit on X.
Bangladesh has introduced a day of mourning on Tuesday, when the nationwide flag will likely be flown at half-mast throughout the nation.
