An Air Force Air Plane in Bangladesh who was carrying out a training flight crashed on a school in the Capital Dacca on Monday, causing the death of at least 16 people, announced the press service of the provisional government.
The fall of the aircraft, the cause of which was not immediately specified, also made more than 100 injured, of which at least 83 were hospitalized, according to this first official assessment.
Most of the victims are students from the Milestone school campus, in the northwest of the Bangladaise capital, the government said.
The plane involved is an F-7 BGI type hunter, of Chinese manufacturing, which took off at 1:06 p.m. local time (3:06, east time), according to the same source.
“There were two fighter planes, one fell here on the part (of the building) where an English course was held for primary students,” a student testified to AFP, Shafiur Rahman Shafi, 18.
“Many young students and teachers have been injured,” he added.
The emergency services were deployed on the scene, where they continued to extract the victims from the rubble from the building affected on civilians, noted an AFP photographer present on the scene.
The provisional head of government, the Nobel Peace Prize in Muhammad Yunus, expressed “his deep sorrow and his sentence”.
“It’s a moment of deep pain for the whole nation,” he added.