What do we know about a deadly accident in a Dhaka school

Bangladesh is observing a day of mourning after at least 27 People were killed when a military jet crashed in a school.

Many of the victims were students who had just come out of class when an F -7 jet crashed in a milestone school and college in the capital Dhaka.

The armed forces stated that Jet had experienced a mechanical mistake after allegedly flying for a training exercise, with one of those killed to the pilot, saying that an investigation would be held.

The accident has been marked by the country’s most deadly aviation disaster in decades, and while the details are still emerging, here we know about the accident so far.

The training aircraft flew from the base of a Bangladesh Air Force in Dhaka only after the local time (07:06 GMT) and the Uttara crashed in the neighborhood soon.

The Air Force said in a statement that F -7 Jet suffered a mechanical defect and pilot, flight lieutenant MD. Tauqir Islam tried to run it in a low crowded area. He was one of the killed people.

A college teacher, Rezaul Islam, told the BBC bungalow that he hit the aircraft “straight” building.

Another teacher, Masood Tariq, told Reuters that he heard an explosion: “When I looked back, I only saw fire and smoke … There were many parents and children here.”

In the hours after the accident, images from the scene trimmed the chart debris in a bid to find out the score of emergency service workers.

In a statement, the armed forces said that an inquiry committee has been formed to see the incident.

Most of the victims were enrolled in Milestone School and College, a private institution with around 2,000 students, from pre-school to senior secondary level.

The Health Ministry said on Monday that at least 17 of the deceased are children.

Farhan Hasan, a student of year 10, told the BBC bungalow that when he saw the aircraft crashed in the building, he left the building after finishing an examination.

“My best friend, one I was in the exam hall, he died right in front of my eyes,” he said.

“And many parents were standing inside because young children were coming out because it was the end of the school day … the plane took the parents with it.”

The eight -year -old nephew of a person was among the students who were killed in an accident. “My dear nephew is still in the morgue,” he said, his hand is resting on his younger brother, the boy’s father’s arm, who kept repeating: “Where is my son?”

A teacher told the Dhaka Tribune that classes for grade five to seven were being held in the building where the plane crashed.

“Although classes ended around 13:00, many students were waiting for private coaching,” said the teacher.

At least 170 people were injured along with an on-duty doctor at Uttara Adhir Medical College Hospital, stating that most of the injured were between 10 and 15 years of age, who were suffering from jet fuel burn.

A doctor of the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery said that more than 50 people were taken to the hospital with Burns.

The plane crash in Bangladesh is relatively rare.

The last time it was observed that a major aircraft disaster was in 1984, when all 49 people died in a Biman flight – Bangladesh’s national flag bearer – died in a swamp while landing near the airport in Dhaka.

In 2018, a US-Bangla Airlines flight crashed while trying to land at an airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, killing 51 people.

In 2008, another F -7 training crashed outside Jet Dhaka, killing the pilot.

The city is still running again from a large -scale casualty incident, and medical efforts are going on.

The National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery was trying to find their loved ones by family members on Monday, as well as volunteers who were queued up to donate blood to the injured. Many politicians were also seen to meet the victims in the hospital.

An emergency hotline has been launched to deal with the accident, Bangladesh’s interim government leader Muhammad Yunus has written on X.

Yunus said that people who can be identified will be handed over to their families, while others will be identified through DNA testing.

He urged the public to avoid the crowd unnecessarily in hospitals to allow medical work to continue reluctant.

He said that “necessary measures” would be taken to investigate the cause of the incident and “ensure all kinds of assistance”, he said.

Officials have said that an inquiry committee has been established to see the incident.

The incident has expressed condolences to the leaders of neighboring countries, including Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.