Day of prayers for victims after Bangladesh jet crash
The Peninsula
Dhaka: Special prayers were held across Bangladesh on Friday, as the death toll from a fighter jet crash into a school building in Dhaka rose to 32....
Dhaka: Special prayers were held across Bangladesh on Friday, as the death toll from a fighter jet crash into a school building in Dhaka rose to 32.
Most of the dead were children -- the youngest aged nine -- after the Chinese-made F-7 BJI aircraft slammed into the Milestone School and College on Monday following a mechanical failure.
The authorities earlier said 31 people were killed and 170 injured in the deadliest aviation disaster in the country in decades.
The latest to succumb to her injuries was 10-year-old Tasnim Afroz Ayman, hospital coordinator Sarkar Farhana Kabir told AFP.
"She was undergoing treatment in the High Dependency Unit with 45 percent burns," she said.
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