Death toll from Bangladesh Air Force aircraft crash rises to 31

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Death toll from Bangladesh Air Force aircraft crash rises to 31

The death toll from Monday's crash of a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft hit 31 on Tuesday, the Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR) of the Bangladesh Army said in a statement, reported Xinhua.

It said 165 people, mostly students, were undergoing treatment at different hospitals as the plane crashed onto a school and college campus.

Most of the victims are children, and the other two victims include the aircraft's pilot and a female schoolteacher, Md Sayedur Rahman, special assistant for health and family welfare for the chief adviser of the interim government, said earlier at a press briefing.

Eye accounts and local people claimed that the number of casualties in the crash is much higher than the number declared by the authority.

The Bangladeshi government is observing a national day of mourning on Tuesday following the jet crash.

As part of marking the day, the national flags have been flown at half-mast at all government, semi-government, autonomous bodies, and educational institutions across the country, as well as at Bangladeshi missions overseas.

A funeral parade was held Tuesday afternoon for flight Lieutenant Towkir Islam Sagar, who was piloting the aircraft.

According to the ISPR, the Bangladesh Air Force aircraft involved in a routine training flight took off from the A.K. Khandaker Air Base in Kurmitola, Dhaka, at 1:06 p.m. local time on Monday and crashed shortly later into the two-storey school building.

  •  Airforce
  •  Aircraft
  •  Crashed
  •  Bangladesh
  •  School

Source: www.dailyfinland.fi

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