The provisional evaluation of the accidental fall on Monday 21 on Monday 21 of an Air Force in the Bangladesh Air Force in a Dacca school on Monday, July 21 at a Dacca school has increased to 27 dead, most students, an official of the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday.
“At that time 27 people died, including 25 children and the pilot,” he said in front of the press Soyedur Rahman.
More than 170 injured had been identified on Monday after the accident by emergency services. “In total, 78 are still treated in different hospitals,” added Sayedur Rahman.
The device, an F-7 BGI of Chinese manufacture, was the victim of a technical problem and crashed early in the afternoon at the Milestone school complex, in the northwest of the capital of Bangladesian, the army said.
This aerial disaster has been the deadliest in Bangladesh for decades.
An open investigation
The monorareactor, who had taken off a few minutes before an air base in the Dacca suburbs, hit a two -story building where the courses were held, which went on immediately.
His pilot, Lieutenant Towkir Islam, 27, who, according to his uncle, made his first flight without an instructor in this type of device, died of his wounds.
According to the army, he tried in vain to eliminate his apparatus when he fell from the inhabited areas. An investigation was opened to determine the causes of the accident, in particular the technical damage suffered by the plane.
Many students in the building have been victims of serious burns, for which they were hospitalized in the emergency department of the National Institute of Grand Burns in Dacca.
The head of the provisional government of Bangladais, the Nobel Peace Prize at Muhammad Yunus, a national mourning day on Tuesday.
Source: BFM TV
