The results of the accident of a F-7 fighter airplane in the Air Force Bangladaise, which occurred Monday on a school complex in Dacca, increased to 27 dead, including 25 children, according to the authorities.
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The crash of an F-7 fighter plane on a DACCA school on Monday left 27 dead, including 25 children and the pilot, and 78 injured are still hospitalized, according to a provisional assessment announced on Tuesday.
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The Air Force Bangladaise apparatus, victim of a technical breakdown shortly after takeoff, crashed on a school building in the Milestone complex, causing a violent fire.
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A national mourning was decreed Tuesday in Bangladesh, where emotion is immense after the worst air disaster in several decades; A military investigation is underway.
The provisional assessment of the accidental fall of an air force in the Bangladesh Air Force on a DACCA school complex worsened Tuesday to increase to 27 dead, for the most part of the students victims of burns.
That scalage?
“At this moment, 27 people died, including 25 children and the pilot”said in front of the press a high-responsible from the Ministry of Health and the Family, Sayedur Rahman.
Of the 170 injuries identified by the emergency services in the hours following the accident, “78 are always treated in different hospitals” of the capital, added Mr. Rahman.
According to the army, the plane, an F-7 BGI of Chinese manufacture, was the victim of a technical problem and crashed early Monday afternoon on the Milestone school complex, in the northwest of Dacca.
This air disaster has been the deadliest in decades in Bangladesh, which observes a day of national mourning on Tuesday.
“School has lost their life, like her children”
The monoreactor, which had taken off a few minutes earlier from an air base on the suburbs of Dacca, struck a two -story building where courses were held, which was immediately ignited.
In the aftermath of the accident, the Milestone school complex, which normally welcomed some 7,000 students, remained largely deserted, noted an AFP journalist.
“School has lost their life, like her children”commented a teacher, Shahadat Hosein, 45, crossed near an empty play area.
In front of the building destroyed by the fall of the plane, an 11 -year -old standing, silent.
“He got out of class two or three minutes before the disaster. He lost his best friend”told AFP his father, Abul Bashar, one of the school guards.
“Trauma”
“He couldn’t sleep all night and asked me this morning to drive 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”.
Around a play area, teachers gathered, crying. In a low voice, some wonder how a military plane could be authorized to fly over the city.
On the accident site, delimited by a yellow banner and rid of the main debris of the plane during the night, soldiers continue to search in search of clues.
“They continue to collect evidence, including body remains or effects belonging to schoolchildren”told AFP a police officer on the spot, Pohone Chakma.
“Mechanical problem”
The F-7 driver, Lieutenant Towkir Islam, 27, who, according to his uncle, made his first flight without instructor on this type of device, died of his injuries.
According to the army, he vainly tried to remove his apparatus in falling from the inhabited areas.
An investigation was opened by the army to determine the causes of the accident, in particular the technical damage suffered by the plane: “It seems that he was the victim of a mechanical problem. The exact cause is the subject of an investigation”said the army on Monday.
Many students in the building were victims of serious burns. Most were hospitalized in the emergency department of the National Burnt Institute of Dacca.
The Bangladais provisional government head, the Nobel Peace Prize in Muhammad Yunus, a day of national mourning on Tuesday.