Bangladesh Air Force jet crashes into Dhaka school building

Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed into a school building in capital Dhaka Monday afternoon, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media division of the Bangladesh Armed Forces, has confirmed.

According to the ISPR, the Bangladesh Air Force’s Chinese-made F-7 BGI training aircraft took off at 1.06 pm, local time on Monday



and crashed into the Milestone School and College building in Dhaka’s Uttara around 1.30 PM.

“The Fire Service has confirmed the death of at least one person in the incident. Rescue work is underway at the scene,” Bangladesh’s leading Bengali daily Prothom Alo reported, stating that the school building caught fire after the plane crashed.