Military jet crashes into school campus in Bangladesh
Fire and smoke were seen billowing from the English-language campus, where the children were studying at the time.
Twenty injured people have been taken to the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery following the crash, officials told local media. Most of them are students.
The F-7 BGI jet took off at 1.06 pm local time (8.06am BST), officials said. Minutes later, the plane crashed into the the Milestone College campus in Dhaka's northern Uttara area, a spokesman of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a media wing of the Bangladesh Army, said.
It was unclear whether the pilots managed to eject before the plane went down.
Firefighters reached the scene at around 1:22pm and rescuers worked to douse the flames and evacuate the injured, officials said.
Abul Kalam Azad Majumder, a government spokesperson, told The Telegraph: 'There could be more deaths as college was open at the time of the incident. Several students have been injured.'
A physics teacher of Milestone College told The Daily Star that he was standing near the 10-storey college building when the aircraft hit the campus. Shortly after 1:00pm, the plane crashed into the front side of the adjacent three-storey school building, trapping several students, he said.
The teacher said he himself carried at least one injured student out of the building and saw several other students and a female teacher with severe burn injuries.
A spokesman for the college said: 'The plane all of a sudden crashed in our Diabari campus. Fire engulfed the plane and students frantically rushed to the scene.'
On May 9, a Bangladeshi Air Force pilot was killed and another was critically injured when a training aircraft crashed into the Karnaphuli River river in southeastern Chattogram. A mechanical malfunction was suspected in the crash of the Yak-130 jet, which caught fire before going down. The pilots ejected from the plane, but Asim Jawad, the squadron leader, died after undergoing treatment.
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