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Students demand answers after the plane crash in Bangladesh
After the tragic crash of a military jet in Dhaka, which converted a school into a death trap, desperate students demand answers. The nation mourns the loss of dozens of children.
Students demand answers after the plane crash in Bangladesh
in Dhaka, Bangladesh, gathered hundreds of students in front of the smoking remains of a school on Tuesday to demand answers. A military jet had fallen into the site of the Milestone School and College and killed numerous children.
a tragic incident
What started as an ordinary day of school was transformed into a scenario of horror on Monday. A Bangladesh Air Force Jet had a technical defect during a routine flight and crashed into the two -storey building of the school, which then went up in flames. At the time of the accident, young students were just in the process of ending their afternoon lessons while parents were waiting for their children at the gates. At least 31 people, including 25 children, lost their lives - it is the most serious air accident in the country's history. Around 165 other people were injured, many of them seriously.
The reaction of the nation
The fact that the majority of the dead and injured children are grief reinforces and shaken the nation with 171 million inhabitants. The whole country is in a state of national grief.
fear and confusion at the scene of the accident
Worked as a police and military on Tuesday at the scene of the accident to mount parts of the crashed aircraft, the assembled people began to shout officials. Some students suspected that the number of victims could be higher than officially announced. The government rejected reports that information about the accident victims would be held back. The identity of the deceased is currently being checked.
reports about the accident
On Tuesday, the eyewitnesses of the incident were visibly shocked by the horror they experienced the day before. Mohammad Imran Hussein, a lecturer at the school, described that parts of different bodies, children and parents were scattered. "I can't put my sensations into words," he said emotionally.
Hussein was in a school building on the other side of the playground when the machine crashed. "The noise was unbearable. I turned around and saw the rear of the plane. I saw a huge flame," he reported. Milestone College includes a kindergarten, primary school and a high school. The destroyed building housed around 100 students aged six to 13 years.
The pilot and the plane
The FT-7 jet was on a routine training flight when he crashed around 1:18 p.m. The pilot, which was identified as Flight Lieutenant Towkir Islam, undertook "all efforts to steer the aircraft from densely populated areas and to control it into a less populated area," reported the military.
emergency in the hospitals
The pictures from the scene of the accident show how parts of the smashed aircraft were rammed into the side of the burned -out school, while rescue teams continued their work. After the accident, the injured were quickly brought to hospitals in the capital, where doctors hastily started treating serious fire injuries. Many of the injured in the Dhaka Medical College Hospital combustion center are children under the age of 12, as the local surgeon Harunur Rashid told Reuters.
voices of grief and helplessness
Bangladesh's interim government leader Muhammad Yunus said on Monday: "I have no words. I don't know how to start." He emphasized that nobody had expected such an incredible incident. "What can we answer to the parents? What can we tell you? We cannot give ourselves an answer," said Yunus in a video message.
The nation faces a difficult task of dealing with the grief of lost life and standing by the families concerned.