A military plane crashes on a school and left at least 20 dead, including many children, in Bangladesh

A hunter from Bangladesh Air Force who was carrying out a training flight crashed this Monday. In addition, July 21, 2025 on a Dacca schoolcausing the death of at least 20 people, including many schoolchildren.

This air disaster is The deadliest occurring in Bangladesh for decades.

At least 171 injured – Military plane crashes school left

The latest assessment published in the early evening reported 20 dead. Similarly, including the pilot, according to the press service of the Banglades armed forces (ISPR).

The fall of the apparatus on a building in the Milestone school campus. In addition, in the northwest of the capital of Banglades, also made 171 injured, most of the schoolchildren aged military plane crashes school left 8 to 12.

Around twenty of them were in critical condition. In addition, told theAFP The D^r Mohammad Nasir Uddin, director of the National Institute of Gallows Burns where many injured were hospitalized.

“A mechanical problem” – Military plane crashes school left

The plane involved. Moreover, an F-7 BGI type F-5-type monoreactor had taken off at 1:06 p.m. Consequently, local (9:06 a.m. in French metropolitan France) from Khandakar air base. in the suburbs of the capital, when it experienced a technical problem shortly after takeoff.

It seems that he was the victim of a mechanical problem. The exact cause is the subject of an investigation.

His pilot. identified as Lieutenant Toukir Islam Sagar, tried in vain to keep his plane in the fall of the inhabited areas of the capital, said the army.

Despite all its efforts, the plane crashed on a two -story building from the Milestone school.

“A big boom”

The emergency services were quickly deployed on the site of the Milestone school. where they extracted the victims of the rubble on civilians, noted a photographer of theAFP.

There were two fighter planes [dans le ciel]one fell here on the game [du bâtiment] Where was. an English lesson for primary school students.

“Many young students. teachers were injured,” added the young man, who was in one of the school playgrounds at the time of the accident. “It made a big boom. We felt a shock like an earthquake. And then everything caught fire, “he said.

The National Institute of Gallows Burnt was quickly stormed by many military plane crashes school left parents of students who came to try to identify their loved ones. noted a journalist from theAFP.

We have desperately looked for my 12 -year -old cousin in several hospitals[…]We finally found his body here.

“Fallen right next to her”

In a corridor of the establishment, Monsur Helal, 46, went to the bedside of his wife Mahrin, an unconscious school agent on a bed.

Mahrin framed the children who came out of the class when the plane suddenly fallen right next to her[…]I was able to speak to her briefly, then she lost consciousness.

In the early evening, many mothers of the victims were gathered in front of the hospital, in tears or feverishly exchanging news on the health of their children.
In front military plane crashes school left of the same institute, dozens of people line up to give their blood.

Declared Mourning Day

The provisional head of government. the Nobel Peace Prize in Muhammad Yunus, expressed “his deep sorrow and his sentence”. “The government will take all the necessary measures to investigate the origin of the accident and assist everyone,” he added.

The authorities decreed a national mourning day across the country on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was “deeply shocked. saddened” and said he was “ready to provide Bangladesh all the support and assistance possible”.

In 1984. a Fokker F-27 from the company Biman connecting the port of Chittagong (Southwest) to Dhaka crashed, causing the death of the 49 passengers and crew members on board.

(Source : AFP)

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