Not less than 19 lifeless after air power jet crashes into faculty

[ad_1] Not less than 19 folks have died and 164 have been injured after a Bangladeshi air power coaching jet crashed into a college campus within the capital, Dhaka.

Footage from Milestone College and Faculty within the northern suburb of Uttara exhibits an enormous fireplace and thick smoke, after the plane slammed right into a two-storey constructing.

The armed forces stated in an announcement on Fb that the F-7 jet, skilled a mechanical fault after taking off for a coaching train simply after 13:00 native time. The pilot was amongst these killed, the air power added.

Greater than 50 folks, together with youngsters and adults, have been taken to hospital with burns, a health care provider on the Nationwide Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgical procedure stated.

The age vary for college students attending the varsity is between 4 and 18 years previous.

A trainer on the school, Rezaul Islam, advised BBC Bangla that he noticed the airplane "immediately" hit the constructing.

One other trainer, Masud Tarik, advised Reuters that he heard an explosion: "After I regarded again, I solely noticed fireplace and smoke... There have been many guardians and children right here."

A pupil stated he noticed the airplane hit the constructing "proper in entrance of my eyes".

The nation's fireplace service stated on social media it had 9 items on the scene, together with six ambulances.

Pictures from the scene present scores of emergency service employees sorting via charred rubble to try to discover survivors.

In a single photograph, fireplace fighters are carrying a physique away from the constructing.

Members of the general public could be additionally seen standing on high of surrounding buildings, watching on.

Muhammad Yunus, the chief of Bangladesh's interim authorities, stated "vital measures" can be taken to analyze the reason for the incident and "guarantee every kind of help".

"It is a second of deep sorrow for the nation. I want the injured a speedy restoration and instruct all authorities, together with the hospitals involved, to cope with the scenario with utmost significance," he stated in a publish on X.