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Students Protest in Bangladesh After Deadly Air Force Jet Crash in Dhaka
Students Protest in Bangladesh After Deadly Air Force Jet Crash in Dhaka |Vantage With Palki Sharma Students Protest in Bangladesh After Deadly Air Force Jet Crash in Dhaka |Vantage With Palki Sharma Protests erupted in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, as the death toll from a fighter jet crash rose to 31. The Chinese-made aircraft crashed into a school yesterday (July 21), killing mostly children. A day later, hundreds of students clashed with security forces as they attempted to storm the Bangladesh Secretariat. The students demanded a proper investigation into the incident. The crash is the country's deadliest aviation accident in decades. Palki Sharma tells you more. See More
Bloomberg
22-07-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Bangladesh Jet Crash Triggers Student-Police Clashes
Protests erupted in Bangladesh's capital a day after a Chinese-made F-7 jet crashed into a school, killing over 30 people, mostly children. Hundreds of students clashed with security forces in Dhaka on Tuesday as they attempted to storm the Bangladesh Secretariat, the country's main government administrative complex, according to private broadcaster Jamuna TV. Live footage showed protesters hurling bricks at police and army personnel, who responded with tear gas and batons to disperse the crowd.
Global News
22-07-2025
- Politics
- Global News
Bangladesh school plane crash death toll rises to 31 as students protest
Hundreds of students protested near the site of the crash of a Bangladesh air force training jet into a school in the nation's capital, demanding accountability, compensation for victims' families and the halt of training flights. The death toll from the crash rose to 31 on Tuesday, including at least 25 students, a teacher who died from burn injuries she sustained while helping others get out of the burning building, and the pilot of the training aircraft. Firefighters further secured the site in Dhaka's densely populated Uttara neighborhood while the military launched an investigation. The country's civil aviation authority was not involved in the investigation directly. Bangladesh declared Tuesday a day of national mourning, with the flags flying at half-staff across the country. Monday's crash at the Milestone School and College caused a fire that gutted the two-story school building. Officials said 171 people, mostly students and many with burns, were rescued and carried away in helicopters, ambulances, motorized rickshaws and in the arms of firefighters and parents. Story continues below advertisement The protesting students demanded 'accurate' publication of identities of the dead and injured, compensation for their families, and an immediate halt to the use of 'outdated and unsafe' training aircraft by the Bangladesh air force. They chanted slogans and accused security officials of beating them and manhandling teachers on Monday. The students became furious after two senior government advisers arrived at the scene, forcing them to take cover for six hours inside the school campus before additional security forces arrived and escorted them out. Elsewhere in Dhaka, scores of students were injured after police charged them with batons. The students earlier broke through security barricades and entered the Bangladesh Secretariat complex, the country's administrative headquarters, and security officials used stun grenades and tear gas to disperse them. They demanded the resignation of the education adviser who, they said, delayed announcing that public exams were being canceled during Tuesday's mourning. Many say they're haunted by the tragedy 'Yesterday, when the plane was approaching, the sound was so loud you can't even imagine — it felt like eardrums were about to burst. Within five seconds, the plane crashed right in front of me here,' Smriti, a student who only gave one name, said outside her school. Story continues below advertisement 'Suddenly, I saw flames rising fiercely upward from the building,' the 11th grader said. 'When I got here, I saw some children lying with their limbs spread out, some of their lifeless bodies scattered around. Can you save them? Tell me, will they ever be able to return to their parents' arms again,' she asked. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy On Tuesday, 78 people, mostly students, remained hospitalized, said Sayeedur Rahman, a special assistant to Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus. Twenty deaths were reported initially, and seven died of their injuries overnight, authorities said. Another four deaths were reported later Monday, the military said. Maherin Chowdhury, a teacher who rescued more than 20 students from the burning school, died from severe burn injuries, her colleague Tanzina Tanu said. Doctors said late Monday that the condition of about two dozen injured remained critical. A blood donation camp has been opened at a specialized burn hospital where most of the injured were being treated. Twenty bodies have been handed over to their families, with some of them possibly needing DNA matching after they were charred beyond recognition. Many relatives waited overnight at a specialized burn hospital for the bodies of their loved ones. The plane reported a malfunction The Chinese-made F-7 BGI training aircraft experienced a 'technical malfunction' moments after takeoff from the A.K. Khandaker air force base at 1:06 p.m. local time Monday, according to a statement from the military. Story continues below advertisement The pilot, Flight Lt. Mohammed Toukir Islam, made 'every effort to divert the aircraft away from densely populated areas toward a more sparsely inhabited location,' the military said, adding that it would investigate the cause of the crash. The Milestone school, about an 11-kilometre (seven-mile) drive from the air force base, is in a densely populated area near a metro station and numerous shops and homes. It was the pilot's first solo flight as he was completing his training course. It remained unclear if he managed to eject before the jet hit the building. The first funeral prayers were held for the pilot in Dhaka on Tuesday morning and second prayers will be held in southwestern Rajshahi district where his parents live. It is the deadliest plane crash in the Bangladeshi capital in recent memory. In 2008, another F-7 training jet crashed outside Dhaka, killing its pilot, who had ejected after he discovered a technical problem. —Associated Press video journalist Al-emrun Garjon contributed to the report.
Time of India
26-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Bangladesh new service law: Protesting employees lock main entrance of Secretariat
Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel Hundreds of government employees on Monday briefly locked the main gate of Bangladesh Secretariat, the heart of the administration, in the capital Dhaka, intensifying their protests against a new service law which allows easier dismissal of officials for misconduct. According to eyewitnesses and media reports, officials and employees of the Secretariat, which houses ministries and important government offices, locked the main gate on the third day of their protest against the Public Service Act amendment The agitating employees gathered near the main entrance around 12:30 pm. During that time, the gate was closed. It was reopened about half an hour later, around 1:00 pm. The protesting employees moved from the gate and gathered in a scattered way across the secretariat premises."The gate was reopened after half an hour," a private TV channel to the reports, official activities inside the complex were largely stalled as the employees continued the work protests started after Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus-led interim government published the revised version of the law, allowing easier dismissal of officials for government employees threatened to continue the protests until the ordinance was scrapped. The authorities deployed extra police to enforce a vigil against any possible violence at the the protest by employees of the Dhaka South City Corporation, demanding the installation of BNP leader Ishraque Hossain as its mayor in line with a court order, has brought administrative services to a halt, election commission preferred not to oppose the verdict, but the interim government on Monday challenged the ruling in the High Court to debar Hossain's swearing-in and allow an administrator it appointed to discharge the mayor's role.A sense of unease intensified in Bangladesh for the past few days amid protests in the civil administration and business sector over the policies of the Yunus-led interim apex Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries and other business chambers Sunday convened a press conference to review the worrisome situation in the business arena.A prominent business community leader Showkat Aziz Russell told the presser that businessmen were being killed just like the intellectuals in the 1971 Liberation War. He warned of famine-like situation as more people become jobless."We don't know how we will pay bonuses and salaries to workers ahead of Eid-ul-Adha," said Russell, the president of Bangladesh Textiles Mills Association (BTMA)."You are inviting foreigners to invest in the country...(but) foreigners know that investment in Bangladesh is not viable. They know Vietnam is more profitable than Bangladesh," Russell have been reports of discord between the military and the interim government over the possible timeline for holding the parliamentary elections and other policy issues related to Bangladesh's security affairs, particularly involving a proposed humanitarian corridor of aid channel to Myanmar's rebel-held Rakhine chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman along with the Navy and Air Force chiefs met Yunus last week and reportedly reiterated their call for election by December this year to allow an elected government to take charge. They also conveyed their reservation about the corridor next day, Gen Zaman held a senior officers meeting at Dhaka Cantonment and said he was unaware of the government's several strategic decisions despite the military's active military also decided to be tough against rampant incidents of "mob justice"."Bangladesh needs political stability. This is only possible through an elected government, not by unelected decision-makers," the Daily Star newspaper quoted Zaman as saying during an "officers' address" in which he delivered a 30-minute speech, followed by more than an hour of questions and from across the country and at Bangladeshi UN missions reportedly joined the event, both physically and virtually, in full combat uniform - a show of unity and to reports, the army chief also voiced concern about making other decisions without an electoral mandate - including the potential foreign management of Chattogram Port, Bangladesh's main seaport, and the launch of Starlink, Elon Musk's satellite internet service - which he said could compromise national security.
