The results of the military plane crash rises to 27 dead

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.

“At this moment, 27 people died, including 25 children and the pilot,” a high-managers of the Ministry of Health and the Family said in the press, Sayedur Rahman. Of the around 170 injured in the emergency services in the hours that followed the accident, “78 are still treated in different hospitals” in the capital, added Sayedur 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.

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.

“The school has lost their life, like her children,” said 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 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 all night 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”.

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 elements of evidence, including remains of bodies or effects belonging to schoolchildren,” a police officer told AFP on the spot, Pohone Chakma.

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.