Largely college students killed and greater than 50 wounded as coaching plane crashes into campus in capital Dhaka.
At the least 19 folks have been killed as a Bangladesh air drive coaching plane crashed into a university and faculty campus in capital Dhaka, a hearth companies official and native media studies stated.
The F-7 BGI plane crashed into the campus of Milestone College and Faculty in Dhaka’s Uttara neighbourhood at about 1pm (07:00 GMT), when college students had been taking exams or attending common lessons.
Greater than 50 folks, together with kids and adults, had been hospitalised with burns after the crash, a health care provider on the Nationwide Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgical procedure informed reporters.
Movies of the aftermath of the crash confirmed an enormous hearth close to a garden emitting a thick plume of smoke into the sky, as crowds watched from a distance.
Firefighters sprayed water on the mangled stays of the airplane, which appeared to have rammed into the facet of a constructing, damaging iron grills and making a gaping gap within the construction.
“A 3rd-grade pupil was introduced in lifeless, and three others, aged 12, 14 and 40, had been admitted to the hospital,” Bidhan Sarker, head of the burn unit on the Dhaka Medical Faculty and Hospital, the place some victims had been taken, informed the Reuters information company.
Social media movies confirmed folks screaming and crying as others tried to consolation them.
“After I was choosing [up] my children and went to the gate, I realised one thing got here from behind … I heard an explosion. After I seemed again, I solely noticed hearth and smoke,” Masud Tarik, a instructor on the faculty, informed Reuters.
Muhammad Yunus, head of Bangladesh’s interim authorities, stated “mandatory measures” could be taken to research the reason for the accident and “guarantee all types of help”.
“The loss suffered by the air drive … college students, dad and mom, academics and employees, and others on this accident is irreparable,” he stated.
Yunus additionally introduced that an emergency hotline has been activated on the Nationwide Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgical procedure within the wake of the crash.
The Bangladesh Purple Crescent Society known as for donations for these injured.
The incident got here a bit of over a month after an Air India airplane crashed on high of a medical school hostel in neighbouring India’s Ahmedabad metropolis, killing 241 of the 242 folks on board and 19 on the bottom, marking the world’s worst aviation catastrophe in a decade.
