One killed as Bangladesh air force plane crashes in college campus

By Ruma Paul

DHAKA (Reuters) -One idiosyncratic was killed arsenic a Bangladesh aerial unit grooming craft crashed into a assemblage field successful the superior metropolis of Dhaka connected Monday, a occurrence services authoritative said.

The incidental occurred successful Dhaka's bluish country of Uttara, the military's nationalist relations section said successful a statement.

"Bangladesh Air Force's F-7 BGI grooming craft crashed successful Uttara. The craft took disconnected astatine 13:06 (0706 GMT)," it said.

More than 50 people, including children and adults, were hospitalised with burns, a doc astatine the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery told reporters.

The decease toll is yet to beryllium ascertained, a subject spokesperson said.

Muhammad Yunus, caput of Bangladesh's interim government, said "necessary measures" would beryllium taken to analyse the origin of the mishap and "ensure each kinds of assistance".

"The nonaccomplishment suffered by the Air Force...students, parents, teachers and staff, and others successful this mishap is irreparable," helium said.

Videos of the aftermath of the clang showed a large occurrence adjacent a tract emitting a heavy plume of fume into the sky, arsenic crowds watched from a distance.

Local paper Prothom Alo said that archetypal reports indicated the level had crashed onto the extortion of the assemblage canteen. Reuters could not independently verify this information.

The incidental comes a small implicit a period aft an Air India level crashed connected apical of a aesculapian assemblage hostel successful neighbouring India's Ahmedabad city, sidesplitting 241 of the 242 radical connected committee and 19 connected the ground, marking the world's worst aviation catastrophe successful a decade.

(Reporting by Ruma Paul and Sudipto Ganguly, penning by Sakshi Dayal; Editing by YP Rajesh and Christina Fincher)