Dread, mourning and questions: parents, teachers and authorities were in the Dacca school on Tuesday on which a military plane crashed the day before, killing at least 31 people, to pay tribute to young victims.
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The aircraft, a Chinese F-7 BGI hunter, crashed early Monday afternoon on the Milestone school complex in the northwest of the Bangladian capital, a victim of a mechanical damage, in the northwest.
The fall of the plane transformed a two -storey building into a blaze that primary students had just left at the end of the lessons.
According to the latest assessment published by the army, the accident left 31 dead, including the pilot, and more than 170 injured, mostly of the seriously burned children.
“At the time of talking to you, we still have 69 hospitalized patients,” a senior head of the Ministry of Health and Family said in the afternoon, Sayedur Rahman. “Ten of them are between life and death,” he added.
This air disaster is the deadliest in decades in Bangladesh.
The lessons were canceled Tuesday at the Milestone school, which usually welcomes some 7,000 students, but parents, teachers and officials paraded all day in front of the accident site.
“The school has lost their life, like her children,” said a teacher, Shahadat Hosein, 45, crossed near a play area.
“Intolerable”
In front of the building destroyed by the fall of the plane, an 11 -year -old standing, silent.
“He came out of class two or three minutes before the disaster. He lost his best friend, ”his father told AFP, Abul Bashar, one of the school’s guards.
“He could not sleep overnight and asked me this morning to lead him to school,” continues the father. “I do not know how long it will take to return to normal, to erase this trauma from the minds of the students.”
The eyes of those who crowd around the yellow ribbon which prohibits access to the destroyed building always read pain and dread.
“I am in shock,” said a teacher, Saiful Islam, 40. “What happened is unbearable. The children were waiting for their parents to go home and today they are no longer of this world … “
Some do not retain their questions. “I have no words,” said the father of an unharmed student, Tipu Sultan, 42. “The death of these innocent children would have been avoided if the plane had not flew over this area.”
The F-7 driver, Lieutenant Towkir Islam, 27, who, according to his uncle, made his first flight without instructor on this type of device, is dead. The army said he had tried to keep his apparatus away from inhabited areas.
“Where are they?”
An investigation entrusted to the soldiers was opened to determine the causes of the accident. “It seems that he was the victim of a mechanical problem,” said the army on Monday.
On the accident site, cleared during the night of the main debris of the plane, soldiers continued all day to search in search of indices.
“They continue to collect elements of evidence, including remains of bodies or effects belonging to schoolchildren,” a police officer told AFP on site, Pahn Chakma.
Students gathered on Tuesday in front of school, accusing the government of lying about the number of victims.
“There were hundreds of students in this building. We saw the pieces of their bodies scattered on the ground. Where are they?” questioned a 17 -year -old high school student.
Surfaces briefly opposed the demonstrators to the police.
“Some soldiers had a knit to leave with students. We apologize, ”said the Minister of Law and Justice, Asif Nazrul.
“The government will take charge of the compensation, rehabilitation and trauma of affected people,” he promised.