The number of victims of a military plane crash in the capital of Bangladesh Dhak increased to 27 another 170 people were injured. On Tuesday morning, a representative of the Ministry of Health, referred to by AFP, informed about it, TASR writes.
The Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed on Monday afternoon to the suburbs of Uttar’s metropolis of Dhak and hit the school area. “27 people have died so far. There are 25 children and a pilot,” Informed Sajedur Rahman, a special assistant of the chief advisor of Bangladesh the Minister of Health and Family Care.
Bangladesh the army said on Monday that the pilot was on a routine training mission when the plane “Reportedly affected mechanical disorder”. The pilot tried to move the plane from densely inhabited areas but “In spite of all the efforts” he crashed into a two -storey school buildingthe army explained that the exact cause of the incident is the subject of the investigation. Temporary Prime Minister Bangladesh Muhammad Junus expressed his condolences to the survivors and declared state mourning on Tuesday.