The death toll from Bangladesh Air Force jet crash on a building of Milestone School and College at Uttara in the city on Monday reached 32 on Wednesday.
Among the deceased, 25 were children, including many under 12, with extensive burn injuries, while two others were schoolteachers, and one was the aircraft鈥檚 pilot.
In a press release issued in the early hours of Wednesday, the health and family welfare ministry senior information officer, Md Shahadat Hossain, said that Nafi, 9, succumbed to death with his 95 per cent burn injury at the ICU in the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery at 12:15am on Wednesday. Meanwhile, on Wednesday morning, Milestone School and College鈥檚 public relations officer, Shah Bulbul, said that a seven-member committee had been formed by the educational institution on Tuesday night to find out the accurate numbers of the killed, injured and missing students.
The committee, headed by the institution principal, Md Ziaul Alam, will submit a report in three days, the officer said.
Besides teachers, there are two representatives from the students and one representative from the guardians in the committee, he added.
A tragedy unfolded on Monday afternoon when a Bangladesh Air Force fighter crashed into a building of Milestone School and College.
The number of injured people in the crash came down to 165 on Tuesday from 171, as per the Inter Services Public Relations directorate.
Seven bodies remained unidentified till now.
Three students remained missing as of Tuesday and on the day their parents submitted their DNA samples to the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka.
Till Tuesday, 21 bodies were handed over to the families.
The Directorate General of Health Services under the health and family welfare ministry also published updates about the deceased and injured patients till 1:00am on Wednesday.
As per the update, 11 died and currently 43 are admitted at National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, 15 died and currently 21 are admitted at Combined Military Hospital, one is currently admitted at Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital, one is currently admitted at Uttara Adhunik Medical College Hospital, one died at Dhaka Medical College, one died at Lubana General Hospital and Cardiac Center, one died at United Hospital Limited and United Hospital Limited and one is currently admitted at United Hospital Limited.
A high-level inquiry committee was formed by the Bangladesh Air Force on Monday to investigate the reason behind the accident, according to the ISPR.
