Plane crashes into school building in Bangladesh, 19 killed

POBNEWS24, Dhaka July 20, 2025 : A plane crashed into a building of the Milestone School and College in Uttara, capital Dhaka, killing 19 people, including the pilot. More than 50 students were injured and burned.
Brigadier General Muhammad Zahed Kamal, Director General of the Fire Service and Civil Defense Department, told reporters at the scene around 4:30 pm that their workers had recovered 19 bodies from the rubble. More than 50 injured and burned people have been sent to hospitals.
Dr. Shaon Bin Rahman, Resident Surgeon of the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, said that more than 50 people have arrived so far. The number is increasing gradually. One of them is dead. Most of the burned people are students. All of them are in critical condition.
The identities of the deceased were not immediately known. The ISPR has not yet provided any information about the pilot.
Inter-Services Public Relations The Directorate-ISPR said that the Air Force’s ‘F-7 BJI’ training aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff at 1:06 pm on Monday.
The aircraft caught fire immediately after crashing into an academic building of the school. Smoke could be seen rising from a long distance. Eight units of the fire service rushed to the spot to douse the fire of the burning aircraft.
Shah Bulbul, Public Relations Officer of Milestone School and College, said that the aircraft crashed into the gate of a building. It was the academic building. Classes of school children were going on there. Many people were burnt in the fire. The names of 28 people admitted to the National Burn Unit have been found.
Meanwhile, a day of national mourning has been declared tomorrow, Tuesday, in the wake of the plane crash. The national flag will be flown at half-mast in all government, semi-government, autonomous institutions, educational institutions of the country. In addition, the national flag will be flown at half-mast in all government, private buildings and Bangladeshi missions abroad. There will be.
Special prayers will be organized in all religious places of worship in the country for the injured and the dead.