“The school has lost their life, like her children”: the results of the crash of a military plane on a school complex in Bangladesh goes up to 27 dead

“At this moment, 27 people diedincluding 25 children and the pilot “, Said this Tuesday, July 22, 2025 before the press, a high-responsible from the Ministry of Health and the Family, Sayedur Rahman.

On some 170 injured identified by the emergency services in the hours following the accident. However, “78 are always treated in different hospitals” of the capital, he added.

According to the army. Meanwhile, 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 for decades in Bangladeshwhich observes a day of national mourning on Tuesday.

The monoreactor. Moreover, who had taken off a few minutes earlier from an air base in the suburbs of Dacca, struck a two -story building “the school lost their life, where courses werewho immediately ignited.

In the aftermath of the accident. In addition, 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” – "the school lost their life,

“He couldn’t sleep all night and asked me this morning to drive him to school”continues the father. “I “the school lost their life, 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 allowed 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 picking up evidenceincluding remains of bodies. effects belonging to schoolchildren “, A police officer on site, Pohone Chakma, told AFP.

The F-7 pilot. Lieutenant Towkir Islam, 27, who, according to his uncle, was doing 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.

A investigation was opened by the “the school lost their life, 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.