LONDON and BELGRADE, Serbia — A minimum of 20 individuals have been killed and 171 have been injured when a Bangladeshi air pressure coaching jet crashed close to a college within the capital Dhaka on Monday, officers mentioned.
The plane crashed on the grounds of the Milestone Faculty and School, within the metropolis’s northern Uttara neighborhood, near the Hazrat Shahjalal Worldwide Airport.
“The rescue operation continues to be ongoing,” Sami Ud Dowla Chowdhury, the director of the Inter Providers Public Relations Directorate (ISPR) of the Bangladesh Armed Forces, instructed ABC Information. “It’s going to take some extra time. All injured or useless have been taken to 4 totally different hospitals.”
Bangladeshi emergency and safety personnel are pictured on the web site of a airplane crash in Dhaka on July 21, 2025.
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The one-seater, Chinese language-made F-7 BGI plane crashed shortly after takeoff after experiencing a “mechanical failure,” Chowdhury mentioned. The pilot — Flt. Lt. Md Towkir Islam — “made a valiant try and divert the plane away from densely populated areas,” Chowdhury mentioned. “Regardless of his finest efforts, the plane tragically crashed.”
Islam died from his accidents as he was being taken to hospital, Chowdhury added.
“It was a coaching mission, a part of common coaching, not an even bigger train,” Chowdhury mentioned. He added that the ISPR doesn’t know but if the plane had any prior technical points.
Chowdhury mentioned the rescue operation on the affect web site is ongoing. “There should still be individuals inside,” he mentioned. “We aren’t but certain if everyone seems to be out of the constructing. The smoke and warmth are very excessive.”
A senior trainer on the college instructed ABC Information that round 4,000 college students examine on the middle. “However when the incident occurred, round 1,000 college students have been current within the campus,” the trainer mentioned. The airplane crashed subsequent to the varsity’s cafeteria.
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