Death toll rises to 16 after Bangladesh Air Force jet crashes into Dhaka school

Saidur Rahman, a National Burn Institute official in Dhaka, told Bangladesh’s leading English daily, The Daily Star, that the death toll rose to 16 within hours.

Firemen check the wreckage of a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft (Al-emrun Garjon/AP)

A Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft has crashed in to a school campus in northern Dhaka – killing at least 16 people, including its pilot, and injuring dozens, officials said.

According to the military and a fire official, the Bangladesh Air Force F-7 BGI aircraft crashed in to the campus of Milestone School and College, in Dhaka’s Uttara neighbourhood, on Monday afternoon, where students were taking tests or attending regular classes.