Dhaka. A Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) training aircraft has crashed into a building inside the Milestone College campus at Diabari in the capital’s Uttara and caught fire following an explosion — leading to multiple casualties.
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the F-7 BGI training aircraft took off at 1:06pm today (21 July) and crashed into the college campus soon after.
Personnel from the Bangladesh Army and Fire Service and Civil Defence are working at the scene to rescue victims and douse the flames.
It is unclear at the moment how many people were injured or whether anyone died. Videos shared on social media by witnesses at the scene showed Army personnel carrying several injured students away from the crash site.
“We transported some of the injured with burns onto a rickshaw and on a van. Clothes were ripped apart, torn, and some even were walking towards rescue vehicles with their burnt bodies,” said a teacher Nuruzzaman Mridha.
In front of Lubana General Hospital in Uttara area, one student was seen frantically crossing the road while holding another student with burn injuries on his lap–later, he managed to get an ambulance and headed toward Dhaka Medical College.
