Bangladesh: Airforce airplane crashes into faculty; a minimum of 16 killed, dozens injured

A Bangladesh Air Drive coaching plane crashed atop a college constructing in Dhaka on Monday, killing a minimum of 16 individuals, most of them kids, and injuring over 100, officers mentioned. Some studies have positioned the loss of life toll at 19.

The plane crashed into the Milestone Faculty and School campus in Dhaka’s Uttara space.

“A minimum of 16 individuals died following the crash of the air drive craft within the Milestone School campus,” mentioned Md Sayedur Rahman, particular assistant to chief adviser Muhammad Yunus for the well being ministry.

Yunus expressed “deep grief and sorrow” over the incident in a social media submit. “The loss suffered by the Air Drive, the scholars, mother and father, academics, and workers of Milestone Faculty and School, in addition to others affected by this accident, is irreparable,” he mentioned. “It is a second of profound ache for the nation.”

Earlier, the defence ministry in a press release mentioned the F-7 BGI coaching plane took off at 1.06 pm native time and crashed into the establishment’s campus quickly after. The F-7BGI is a complicated model of the Chinese language J-7 fighter.