The number of those who perished after a military plane crashed into a school has risen to 31. Students have been protesting in Dhaka, demanding accountability.

"The situation there was beyond tragic," says student volunteer Sarder Riyad, who was the first to reach the site of the horrific plane crash in Dhaka on Monday, 21 July, that claimed the lives of 27 people,

A military training aircraft crashed shortly after take-off on Monday, crashing into a school in the capital, Dhaka.

Flight Lieutenant Towkir Islam, the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) pilot who lost his life after the fighter jet he was flying crashed in the Diabari campus of Milestone College in Dhaka yesterday (21 July), will be laid to rest in Rajshahi.

"A fighter jet has crashed into a building of Milestone College at Diabari area," said Mohidul Islam, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police's Uttara division, The Business Standard reports. The building the plane crashed into is understood to be ...

Muhammad Yunus, head of the interim government in Bangladesh, expressed his "deep sorrow and grief" after an air force jet crashed into a campus in Dhaka.