Dhaka, Bangladesh – Hundreds of students protested near the site Accident of Bangladesh Air Force Training Jet in a school In the nation’s capital, demand for accountability, compensation for the families of the victims and the stop of training flights.
The death toll from the accident increased to 31 on Tuesday, including 25 students, a teacher who died of burnt injuries helps others get out of the burning building, and the training aircraft helps to get out of the aircraft pilot.
The firefighters made the scene of the accident more secure in the densely populated Uttara neighborhood of Dhaka, while an investigation was on by the army. The Civil Aviation Authority of the country was not directly involved in the investigation.
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Bangladesh, in shock after an accident associated with its Air Force, Tuesday, was marked as a national day of mourning, with the national flag flying on half staff across the country.
About 2 dozen people are still hospitalized in critical condition
Milestone school and college caught fire due to Monday’s accident which left the two -storey school building in Dhaka in flames. Officials said 171 people, mostly students and several burn, they were rescued and taken from the scene in helicopters, ambulances, motorized rickshaws and arms of firefighters and parents.
On Tuesday, 78 people, mostly students, hospitalized, Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus Special Assistant Saididhar Rahman said. Officials said twenty deaths were initially reported and seven died of injuries overnight.
Maherin Chaudhary, a teacher, who rescued more than 20 students from the burning school, died of serious burnt injuries, his colleague Tanjina Tanu said.
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The doctors said late Monday that the condition of about two dozen injured is important. A blood donation camp has been opened in a special burn hospital where most of the injured were being treated.
Twenty bodies have been handed over to their families, some of them possibly need DNA matching, as they were beyond recognition. Many relatives waited overnight in a special burn hospital for the bodies of their loved ones.
The school offers classes for about 2,000 students from primary level to 12th standard.
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Students protesting outside the accident site in milestone school and college on Tuesday demanded “accurate” publication of compensation for families, dead and injured by Bangladesh Air Force for the use of “old and unsafe” training aircraft.
He raised slogans and accused security officials of beating them and beating teachers on Monday.
After two senior government advisors reached the spot, the students later became angry, forcing the authorities to take the cover.
According to an army statement, Chinese -made F -7 BGI training aircraft experienced the moments of “technical fault” from Ak Khandekar Air Force Base at 1:06 pm on Monday afternoon.
Pilot, Flight Lieutenant Mohammad Tauqir Islam, “made every attempt to move the aircraft to a more settled place away from the densely populated areas,” the army said, saying that it would investigate the cause of the accident.
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A milestone, a metro station and a densely populated area near the Air Force base, a milestone, a metro station and many shops and houses.
This was the pilot’s first single flight as it was completing his training course. It was not clear whether he managed to evict the jet in the building before hitting it.
The first funeral was prayed for the pilot in Dhaka on Tuesday morning and the second prayer will be held in the South -West Rajshahi district where his parents live.
It is the most deadly aircraft accident in the Bangladeshi capital in a recent memory. In 2008, another F -7 training crashed outside Jet Dhaka, killing her pilot, which removed her after discovering a technical problem.