Some of the victims were taken to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital. “A third-grade student was brought in dead, and three others, aged 12, 14 and 40, were admitted to the hospital,” Bidhan Sarker, head of the hospital’s burn unit, said.
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The tragedy comes weeks after a UK-bound Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed into a medical college shortly after take-off in India’s Ahmedabad city on June 12, killing 241 of the 242 people on board and 19 on the ground, marking the world’s worst aviation disaster in a decade.
According to defence and security open-source website Jane’s Information Group, the air force jet involved in Monday’s crash was the most advanced variant in China’s Chengdu J-7/F-7 aircraft family.
Bangladesh signed a contract for 16 aircraft in 2011 and deliveries were completed by 2013. The Chengdu F-7 is the licence-built version of the Soviet MiG-21.
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