\nDhaka \/\/<\/p>\n
The death toll in the crash of an Air Force training plane into a building of Milestone School and College in Diyabari, Uttara, has risen to 20. 171 people have been injured and burned.<\/p>\n
The ISPR said this in a statement on Monday evening. The ISPR also reported the number of injured people admitted to various hospitals.<\/p>\n
1. Kuwait Friendship Hospital: 8 injured, no deaths<\/p>\n
2. National Burn Institute: 70 injured, 2 deaths<\/p>\n
3. Dhaka Medical College: 3 injured, 1 death<\/p>\n
4. CMH-Dhaka: 17 injured, 12 deaths<\/p>\n
5. Kurmitola General Hospital: 1 injured, 2 deaths<\/p>\n
6. Lubna General Hospital and Cardiac Center, Uttara: 11 injured, 2 deaths<\/p>\n
7. Uttara Modern Hospital: 60 injured, 1 death<\/p>\n
8. Uttara Crescent Hospital: 1 injured, no deaths.<\/p>\n
A total of 171 people are being treated for injuries in these eight hospitals. 20 people have died.<\/p>\n
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that the Air Force’s ‘F-7 BGI’ training aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff at 1:06 pm on Monday.<\/p>\n
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 in the burning aircraft.<\/p>\n
Shah Bulbul, Public Relations Officer of Milestone School and College, said that the aircraft crashed into the gate of a building. It was an academic building. Classes of school children were going on there. Many people were burnt in the fire.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a day of national mourning has been declared tomorrow, Tuesday, in the wake of the plane crash and casualties. The national flag will be flown at half-mast in all government, semi-government, autonomous institutions and educational institutions of the country. In addition, the national flag will be flown at half-mast in all government and private buildings and Bangladeshi missions abroad.<\/p>\n
Special prayers will be organized in all religious places of worship in the country for the injured and killed.<\/p>\n
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Dhaka \/\/ The death toll in the crash of an Air Force training plane into a building of Milestone School and College in Diyabari, Uttara, has risen to 20. 171 people have been injured and burned. The ISPR said this in a statement on Monday evening. The ISPR also reported the number of injured people admitted to various hospitals. 1. Kuwait Friendship Hospital: 8 injured, no deaths 2. National Burn Institute: 70 injured, 2 deaths 3. Dhaka Medical College: 3 injured, 1 death 4. CMH-Dhaka: 17 injured, 12 deaths 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7885,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions\/7885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}