The emergency department of the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in the capital was unusually crowded. Ambulances kept arriving.
With the help of army personnel and hospital staff, patients were being brought down from the vehicles. Outside, worried family members watched anxiously, trying to peek into the ambulances to see who had been brought in.
Among them, a woman sat down on the ground outside the emergency unit. Crying, she said, "Will I find my Manik here?"
Her brother Nabil Ahmed told the Stream that the woman's younger son, Fahim, a 5th grader at Milestone School, was yet to be found after four hours of the crash.
Around 1:18pm today, a training aircraft crashed into a building of the Milestone School & College in Uttara. So far, officials confirmed that 19 people were killed and 164 injured in the crash.
Some of the injured were immediately taken to CMH Dhaka by helicopter and ambulance. Currently, 9 injured individuals are undergoing treatment at the hospital. The bodies of 14 people, including Flight Lieutenant Tawkir Islam, who was flying the training jet, were brought in dead.
Additionally, 14 injured army personnel involved in the rescue operation, along with one police officer and one firefighter, were receiving treatment at CMH Dhaka.
Around 3:30pm, Home Affairs Adviser Jahangir Alam Chowdhury visited the CMH. He first went to the hospital's mortuary and then the emergency department.
Outside the emergency department, Nabil, a 10th grader of the school, said after hearing about the incident, he rushed to the campus and then came to the hospital in an ambulance with an injured classmate.
A BANG FOLLOWED BY FLAMES
The building on which the plane crashed was primarily used for classes of the primary school section. The students had been dismissed at 1:00pm and were leaving the building when the crash occurred, according to eyewitnesses.
Abir Mahmud Uday, an 11th grader said, "We were still in class when we suddenly heard a loud noise. We rushed outside and saw the plumes of smoke and flames."
Local residents rushed to the scene and began rescuing the victims. Army personnel and firefighters arrived soon afterwards and took over the operation.
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