Angry students face Bangladesh officials, with a high number of deaths to 31

Hundreds of students, near the Bangladesh Air Force training plane, protested at a school in the country’s capital, demanding accountability, compensation for the families of the victims and stopping training trips.

The death toll from the accident rose to 31 on Tuesday, including 25 students, and a teacher who died from his wounds that he sustained while helping others to get out of the burning building and the pilot of the training plane.

The firefighters secured the scene of the accident in the populated Utara neighborhood in Dhaka, while the investigation conducted by the army was continuing. The Civil Aviation Authority in the country was not involved in the investigation directly.

Bangladesh was distinguished on Tuesday as a national day of mourning, as the national flag flies into half of the employees throughout the country.

The collapse of the Milestone School in Dhaka caused a fire that left the two -storey school building in Flames. Officials said 171 people, most of them students and a lot of burns, were rescued and taken from the scene of the helicopter and ambulances, automatic vehicles, in the arms of firefighters and parents.

Students who protest outside the crash demanded the deployment of “accurate” identities of the dead and wounded, compensation for families, and an immediate stop to use an “old and unsafe” training plane by the Air Force Bangladesh.

They chanted slogans and accused security officials of beating and throwing teachers on Monday.

Students were also angry after two senior government advisers arrived at the scene, forcing officials to cover.

Siddor Rahman, a special assistant to the temporary leader in Bangladesh, Mohamed Yunus, said 78 people, most of them students, remained in the hospital.

Doctors late Monday said that about twenty injuries remained decisive. A blood donation camp was opened in a hospital specialized in Burn, where most of the injured were treated.

Twenty bodies have been handed over to their families, and some may need DNA after they were emptied along with confession. Many relatives have waited overnight at a specialized burning hospital for the bodies of their loved ones.

Her colleague, Tanzina Tano, said that Maherrin Chaudhry, a teacher who saved more than 20 students from the burning school, died of severe burns.

The first single trip for the pilot

The Chinese Chinese F-7 BGI training plane witnessed a “technical failure” moments after taking off from the AK Khandaker Air Force at 1:06 pm on Monday, according to a statement from the army.

“Every effort is possible to convert densely populated aircraft towards a more easy -to -live position,” said the army.

The Milestone School, about 11 km from the Air Force Base, is located in a densely populated area near the metro station and many stores and homes. This was the first single trip for the pilot as he was completing his training course. It remains unclear whether he was able to get out before the plane hit the building.

The first funeral prayer for the pilot was held in Dhaka on Tuesday morning, and the second prayers will be held in the southwestern province of Rajeshi, where his parents live.

It is a bloody plane in the capital of Bangladesh in modern memory. In 2008, another F-7 training plane crashed out of Dhaka, killing his pilot, who after discovering a technical problem.