Dhaka, Bangladesh — A Bangladesh Air Drive coaching plane crashed into a college campus within the capital, Dhaka, shortly after takeoff on Monday, killing at the very least 20 individuals together with the pilot and injuring greater than 100, officers mentioned. In accordance with the navy and a hearth official, the Chinese language-made F-7 BGI plane crashed into the campus of Milestone College and Faculty, within the Uttara neighborhood, within the afternoon as college students had been attending courses.
The navy mentioned the jet took off at 1:06 p.m. native time and crashed quickly after, catching hearth instantly. The trigger was not instantly clear.
Native media indicated many of the injured in Dhaka on Monday had been college students. Kinfolk panicked on the scene as rescuers, utilizing tricycle rickshaws or no matter was accessible, transported the injured to native hospitals.
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A determined scene unfolded after the crash. Native residents and rescuers carried wounded college students on their laps, whereas apprehensive dad and mom ran frantically. One father sprinted along with his daughter cradled in his arms. A mom cried out, having discovered her youthful baby, however desperately looking for her elder.
Bangladesh’s interim chief Muhammad Yunus pledged an investigation into the crash, expressing his deep sorrow over the “heartbreaking accident” at Milestone College and Faculty.
In a press release, he lamented the “irreparable” loss suffered by “Air Drive personnel, college students, dad and mom, lecturers, employees, and others,” calling it “a second of deep nationwide grief.”
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Rafiqa Taha, a scholar who was not current on the time of the crash, instructed The Related Press by telephone that the college, with some 2,000 college students, provides courses from elementary to twelfth grade.
“I used to be terrified watching movies on TV,” the 16-year-old mentioned. “My God! It is my college.”
It was the deadliest airplane crash within the Bangladeshi capital in latest reminiscence, although a passenger aircraft owned by a joint Bangladeshi-U.S. agency crashed in Nepal in 2018, bursting into flames after careening off the runway and killing dozens of individuals on board.
