BBC Bangla, in Dhaka
BBCFarhan Hasan had simply completed an examination and left the school room chatting to pals when a Bangladeshi air power coaching jet crashed into his faculty campus – killing no less than 27 other folks.
“The burning airplane was once hitting the construction proper in entrance of my eyes,” the Milestone Faculty and School pupil informed BBC Bangla.
Pictures from the varsity in a northern suburb of the capital, Dhaka presentations an enormous hearth and thick smoke, after the airplane slammed right into a two-storey construction.
Greater than 170 other folks have been injured within the crash.
The militia mentioned that the F-7 jet had skilled a mechanical fault after starting up for a coaching workout simply after 13:00 native time (07:00 GMT). The pilot, Flight Lieutenant Md. Taukir Islam, was once amongst the ones killed.
Farhan, who was once chatting with BBC Bangla along his uncle and his father, added: “My easiest pal, the only I used to be within the examination corridor with, he died proper in entrance of my eyes.
“In entrance of my eyes… the airplane went proper over his head. And plenty of oldsters have been status within as a result of the more youthful children have been popping out because it was once the top of the varsity day… the airplane took the oldsters along side it.”
A trainer on the school, Rezaul Islam, informed the BBC that he noticed the airplane “at once” hit the construction.
Some other trainer, Masud Tarik, informed Reuters that he heard an explosion: “Once I seemed again, I simplest noticed hearth and smoke… There have been many guardians and youngsters right here.”
Hours after the crash, in a residential house which is reasonably densely populated, massive crowds collected with other folks status on best of structures to get a view.
As other folks ran in all instructions, ambulances and volunteers labored to search out their method to lift the injured and plenty of our bodies out of the Milestone Faculty and School.
No less than 30 ambulances have been noticed transferring other folks out.
One girl searching for data on the scene informed the BBC her son had known as her proper after the crash, however she had now not heard from him since.
Nur Photograph by way of Getty PhotographsGreater than 50 other folks, together with kids and adults, have been taken to medical institution with burns, a health care provider on the Nationwide Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgical procedure mentioned.
Many households and relations of sufferers have been within the medical institution – together with Shah Alam, the uncle of a Yr 8 boy, Tanvir Ahmed, who died within the crash.
“My loved nephew is within the morgue presently,” Mr Alam mentioned conserving directly to his more youthful brother – Tanvir’s father – who was once not able to talk.
Lots of the sufferers within the burns medical institution are minors – maximum of them are between the ages of 9 and 14.
Many different contributors of the general public got here to the medical institution to donate blood; whilst quite a few politicians from the 2 distinguished political events Bangladesh Nationalist Celebration (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami visited.
Bangladesh’s well being ministry mentioned sufferers were admitted throughout seven hospitals within the Dhaka; whilst the period in-between executive has introduced an afternoon of mourning on Tuesday around the nation, when the nationwide flag can be flown at half-mast.
The pilot had attempted to navigate the jet to a much less populated house after the mechanical fault befell, the militia observation mentioned. He had simplest simply taken off from an air power base within the capital.
An investigation committee has been shaped to seem into the incident, the observation added.
Muhammad Yunus, the chief of Bangladesh’s period in-between executive, mentioned “essential measures” could be taken to analyze the reason for the incident and “be sure that a wide variety of help”.
“It is a second of deep sorrow for the country. I want the injured a fast restoration and instruct all government, together with the hospitals involved, to maintain the placement with utmost significance,” he mentioned in a put up on social media web page X.
