The Bangladesh Mourns today (22.07.2025) 27 dead citizens, of whom 25 were children, after the tragedy noted by a crash aircraft of the Air Force in campus.
Everything happened yesterday morning, when Bangladesh’s Air Force training aircraft fell into a university building in Dhaka. The first confirmed death was that of the pilot. After a fierce collision caused firewith volunteers, firefighters and army forces to attempt to extinguish, release and rescue survivors.
‘As far as we have 27 dead, Among them 25 children and the pilot ‘of the military aircraft, Sahandur Rahman’s press official, Sahandur Rahman, told the press.
In total have been recorded over 170 injuries after the accident, while at the moment ‘overall 78 continue to be hospitalized In various hospitals, “Rahman added.
The aircraft was F-7 BGI, Chinese construction (Chengdu) – Soviet design, based on Mig-21 and is produced by China with permission – which suffered a technical problem and then fell to the school complex Milestonein the northwestern part of the capital of Bangladesh, as the army said.
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Earlier today, a Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) fighter aircraft reportedly crashed during a routine training mission.Eyewitnesses in the area saw a trail of smoke before hearing a loud explosion. pic.twitter.com/WvhInxaFMe
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It is a one loud A plane crash in Bangladesh marked in the country for decades.
The single -engine had taken off a few minutes earlier than the Air Force in a suburb of the capital Dhaka. He fell on a two -storey building where regular lessons were conducted.
His operator, 27 -year -old Tukir Islamwhich according to his uncle made his first flight without a trainer present in the cockpit. After the crash he succumbed to the wounds he suffered.
According to the Air Force, he tried, in vainto remove its aircraft from residential areas of the capital by making dangerous maneuvering As a result, it loses control.
Has begun to conduct an investigation to ascertain the causes of the accident, more specifically technical damage suffered by the aircraft, which in addition to an educational role is used as a pursuit and to support close support.
Many students in the building where the fighter crashed very serious burns and were rushed to the National Institute’s Emergency Department for burns in Dhaka.
Head of the Bangladeshi Transitional Government, Nobel laureate Peace Mohammad Junaannounced that today Tuesday is declared day of national mourning.