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Bangladesh Air Force jet crashes into campus: Pilot, teacher and 25 children dead
On lookers watch through a damaged window as members of Bangladesh Air Force work at the site, after an air force training aircraft crashed into a building belonging to Milestone School and College, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 22, 2025.
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At least 25 children were among the 27 dead pulled from scorched buildings after a Bangladesh Air Force jet on a training mission crashed into a college and school campus in Dhaka, officials said on Tuesday, with 88 people being treated in hospital.
The F-7 BGI aircraft crashed soon after it took off at 1:06 pm (10:06 pm EAT) on Monday from the airbase in Kurmitola in the capital on a routine training mission. The military said the plane experienced a mechanical failure.
