The capital of Bangladés, rises to 31, according to the authorities of the country, which have specified that, of them, 25 were children, in many cases under 12 years. This data has been known on Tuesday, as rescue teams have rescued the bodies of carbonized buildings against which a plane from the Bangladés armed forces hit, which crashed into the facilities of the Milastone school. Bangladesi authorities have also reported that 68 people continue to receive treatment in hospitals; Of them, 10 in critical condition.
“Among the dead, 25 are children – many children under 12 years old – with wounds for extensive burns. The other two victims are the aircraft pilot and a school teacher,” Sayedur Rahman, Health Advisor of the Interim Government of Bangladés.
The plane, which carried out a training mission, crashed into the educational center on Monday as soon as we take off shortly after one in the afternoon, nine in the morning during Spanish peninsular hours, of the Kurmitla Air Base, in the capital. According to the army, the cause of the accident
Bangladesi military sources have indicated that the pilot, before crashing, tried to divert the plane to prevent it from falling, as in the end it happened, in a densely populated area. He did not succeed and the aircraft crashed into a two -storey building from the Milestone school, which welcomes students between four and 18 years.
When the plane hit school, students were still inside the school, which explains the high number of deceased minors. As I explained to the press, Sayedur Rahman, collaborator of the Chief of Health Bangladesi, among the deceased, there were 25 children, a teacher and the plane pilot.
The images then showed the rescue teams tracking the carbonized buildings in search of survivors and corpses, while distressed relatives surrounded the place, including some parents who had come to the center’s doors to pick up their children.
The wrecked aircraft was a F-7 BGI Biplaza of Training, the most advanced and recent model of Chinese Congdu J-7/F-7, which in turn is a version of Russian Mig-21, according to the Reuters agency. Bangladés signed a contract with Beijing to acquire 16 of these aircraft in 2011 and deliveries were completed in 2013.
The government later announced this Tuesday as a mourning day. The flags wave in half -mast in the country and many inhabitants of Dacca approached in the hours after the accident to the hospital of large burns of the Bangladesi capital to donate blood.
For their part, students of the school and nearby universities protested on Tuesday when two government officials visited the scene of the accident, demanding an exact number of dead and shouting: “Why did our brothers die? We demand answers!” In other parts of the capital, hundreds of students, some of them brandishing sticks, broke into the main door of the Federal Government Secretariat, demanding the resignation of the Education Advisor, according to local television images. Police used tear gas to disperse students.
This accident occurs a little more than a month after crashing on the campus of a Faculty of Medicine in the Indian city of Ahmedabad. Only aboard the device. The impact of the aircraft also killed 19 people who were on land, thus becoming the worst air catastrophe in the world in a decade.
