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Hundreds of students protested near the accident site of a Bangladesh Air Force training plane in a school in the capital of the nation, demanding responsibility, compensation for the families of the victims and the part of the training flights.
The number of dead for the accident increased to 31 on Tuesday, including 25 students, a teacher who died from burns injuries he suffered while helping others to leave the building on fire and the pilot of the training plane.
Firefighters further secured the scene of the accident in the neighborhood of Utara densely populated by Dhaka while an investigation carried out by the military was ongoing. The country’s civil aviation authority did not participate directly in the investigation.
Bangladesh marked Tuesday as a national day of grieving, with the national flag flying in the middle of the country throughout the country.
The accident at school and the University of Milestone in Dhaka caused a fire left by the two -story school building on fire. The authorities said that 171 people, mostly students and many with burns, were rescued and taken from the scene in helicopters, ambulances, rickshaws motorized and in the arms of firefighters and parents.
The students who protested outside the accident site demanded a “precise” publication of the identities of the dead and injured, compensation for families, and an immediate high for the use of “outdated and insecure” training aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force.
They sang slogans and accused the security officials of beating them and mistreating the teachers on Monday.
The students also got furious after two higher government advisors reached the scene, forced the officials to be charged.
On Tuesday, 78 people, mostly students, remained hospitalized, said Sayeedur Rahman, a special assistant of the interim leader of Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus.
The doctors said Monday night that the condition of approximately two dozen wounds remained critical. A blood donation field was opened in a burning specialized hospital where most of the injured were being treated.
Twenty bodies have been delivered to their families, and some of them possibly need DNA coincidence after they were carbonized beyond recognition. Many relatives waited during the night in a specialized burning hospital for the bodies of their loved ones.
Maherin Chowdhury, a teacher who rescued more than 20 students from the school in flames, died of serious burning wounds, said his colleague Tanzina Tanu.
The first solo flight of the pilot
The BGI F-7 training aircraft of China experienced a “technical malfunction” moments after the take-off of the Ak Khandaker Air Force base at 1:06 pm on Monday, according to a statement from the military.
The pilot, the flight lieutenant Mohammed Toukir Islam, did “everything possible to divert the plane from the densely populated areas towards a more scarce location,” said the army, and added that he would investigate the cause of the accident.
The Milestone school, on a 11 kilometers from the base of the Air Force, is in a densely populated area near a metro station and numerous stores and houses. It was the first solo flight of the pilot, since he was completing his training course. It was not clear if he managed to expel before the plane hit the building.
The first funeral prayers were carried out for the pilot in Dhaka on Tuesday morning and the second prayers will take place in the southwest district of Rajshahi, where their parents live.
It is the most deadly plane crash in the capital of Bangladesh in recent memory. In 2008, another F-7 training plane crashed out of Dhaka, killing his pilot, which he had expelled after discovering a technical problem.
