Air force jet crashes in Dhaka


Scouring the site: Firemen checking the wreckage of a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft that crashed into a college campus in Dhaka. — AP

At least 19 people were killed as a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed into a college and school campus in the capital city of Dhaka, a fire services official said.

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

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