Archive July 21, 2025

At least 19 people have been killed when a training jet from the Bangladesh Air Force crashes into a school campus.

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What transpired in the plane crash in Bangladesh?

The F-7 BGI training aircraft from Bangladesh Air Force crashed in Uttara. The Bangladeshi military’s public relations team reported that the aircraft descended at 13:06 [07:06 GMT]

Around 12:30 p.m., local media reported that the aircraft crashed.

As people watched from a distance, there were videos of the aftermath of the crash that showed a fire and thick smoke rising into the sky.

The plane crashed in 1984, which was the deadliest aviation incident in Bangladesh since the plane’s collision, which claimed the lives of all 49 passengers.

In Ahmedabad, India, a passenger plane of Air India crashed into a medical college hostel last month, killing 19 people on the ground as well as 242 on board. The worst aviation disaster in a ten years was this one.

The crash site was where?

The plane crashed into the private school Milestone School and College in Uttara’s northern Dhaka neighborhood.

The location of the aircraft’s collision with the side of a building was revealed in video posted online following the crash, leaving a gaping hole behind.

Students were studying for exams or enrolling in regular classes at the time of the crash.

What size is this institution?

There are 6, 000 students enrolled at Milestones, according to the information on the school’s website.

What kind of aircraft did it have?

The Chinese Chengdu Corporation produces the light, “multi-role” fighter F-7 BGI.

Air-to-air combat, aerial bombing, reconnaissance, and the suppression of air defenses are all common “roles” in combat, which include multi-role fighter aircraft.

When Bangladesh purchased 36 of them in 2022, the BGI was hailed as the most developed F-7.

According to Bangladesh’s requirements, it had been upgraded.

What are the victims’ details known to us?

Using data from a variety of hospitals, at least 19 people have died and more than 100 have been injured.

Details about those who have died or are injured have not been made public by authorities.

According to Bidhan Sarker, head of the burn unit at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, “a third-grade student was brought in dead, and three others, aged 12, 14 and 40, were admitted to the hospital.”

What are the outlines of the rescue efforts?

A doctor at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery reported to reporters that more than 50 people had burn injuries after the collision, including children.

According to Muhammad Yunus, the head of Bangladesh’s interim government, an emergency hotline has been established at the institute.

According to local media reports, several injured people were flown by air force helicopters to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH).

According to local media reports, the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), a paramilitary border security force, and the army, air force, police, and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) are working together on rescue operations.

According to the Dhaka Tribune, eight fire service units are attempting to contain the fire.

What is the most recent tidbit of information?

In the wake of the crash, Yunus claimed that the government is taking all necessary precautions.

He declared on his X account that as soon as possible, the bodies of those who can be identified will be returned to their families.

Those whose identities cannot be confirmed right away will have their identities verified through DNA testing, which will include the release of their remains to their families.

According to the health ministry of Gaza, four children have perished from starvation in the past 72 hours. According to experts, the famine is expected and planned. Some people try to survive in this manner.

In connection with the fatal shooting of a couple in the province of Balochistan, Pakistani authorities have detained at least 13 people, including a tribal leader.

Following widespread outcry over a video that featured the murders that went viral on social media, many people calling it yet another instance of “honor killing,” a custom that was reported from across South Asia.

The couple’s name is Bano Bibi and her husband Ehsan Ullah, according to the first information report (FIR) that the police filed on Monday. They were most likely killed in May near Quetta, Balochistan.

Honour killings, most frequently reported in Pakistan and India, result from alleged caste, tribal, or family dishonor, especially in love marriages, where the partners marry without the other person’s permission, their tribe, or elope. Many of these crimes are unreported.

Syed Suboor Agha, a police official from Balochistan, stated to Al Jazeera that they are looking into the incident and are likely to make more arrests, including Bano’s brother, who is wanted for killing his brother and is “still at large.”

A group of armed men are seen gathered around vehicles in a deserted area in the viral videos of the killings. The crowd orders Bano to keep his distance from the cars as the couple is shot multiple times, even on their motionless bodies strewn on the sand.

The FIR lists 15 additional unidentified suspects who were involved in the incident in addition to the eight suspects.

The couple’s attorney, Sardar Sherbaz Khan, allegedly brought them before the local tribal leader, who found them guilty of having an “immoral relationship” and gave the order to have them killed.

The “tyranny of medieval customs”

Regarding “honor killings” and other forms of violence against women, Pakistan has a bad record.

More than 32, 000 cases of gender-based violence were reported across the country in 2024, including 547 “honor killings,” 32 of which occurred in Balochistan and one of which resulted in conviction, according to Sustainable Social Development Organization (SSDO), an independent organization based in Islamabad.

The killings in the name of honor are a confirmation of the “tyranny of medieval practices” that are still prevalent in many parts of Pakistan, according to Harris Khalique, general secretary of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), the country’s leading rights organization.

The state protected tribal chiefs and feudal lords who maintain their dominance over local people and resources, Khalique claimed in an interview with Al Jazeera, instead of upholding the rule of law and guaranteeing the rights of its citizens.

Pakistan’s largest but least populous province, Balochistan, has also experienced decades of conflict between the government and ethnic Baloch separatists who want secession.

The killing of women has come to be “a matter of routine” in the province, according to rights activist Sammi Deen Baloch, who also supports a group dedicated to Baloch women’s rights.

Women are murdered for love, vanished for protest, and buried beneath tribal control and state-backed silence in Balochistan. These tragedies are not unique. They are the price of a system that makes Balochistan’s women impoverished and subservient, she claimed.

If the video hadn’t gone viral, Baloch claimed the government wouldn’t have taken action in the case of the murders.

“Baloch women are stranded between the oppressive practices of tribal patriarchy and state-imposed oppression. One kills quietly, and the other kills peacefully, she said.