Crash au Bangladesh –
A military plane crashes on a school and left at least 16 dead
Sixteen people lost their lives and more than a hundred were injured during the crash of an army plane on an school in the capital, Dacca on Monday.
According to a first assessment, the hunter crash killed at least sixteen people on Monday in Bangladesh.
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An Air Force Airplane Bangladesh, Who was carrying out training, crashed on a school in the capital on Monday, Dacca, causing the death of at least sixteen people, announced the press service of the provisional government.
The hunter’s fall, the cause of which was not immediately specified, on the buildings of a school campus also made more than 100 injured, at least 83 of which 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 (09 h 06 in Switzerland), according to the same source.
Many students among the victims
“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.
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