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The mother (C) of an injured student weeps inside a hospital after an Air Force training jet crashed into a school in Dhaka on July 21, 2025. | AFP photo

The death toll in Bangladesh Air Force jet crash into Milestone School and College in the capital’s Uttara area reached 34 as two more victims died on Thursday.

Mahiya, 15, another student died at around 4:30pm on Thursday in the Intensive Care Unit of the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery with 50 per cent burn injuries, said the institute’s residential physician Shawon Bin Rahman.


Before her, according to a health and family welfare ministry press release, Mahtab, 15, who sustained 85 per cent burn injuries, passed away in the ICU of the NIBPS at 1:52pm on the same day.

Milestone School and College public relations officer Shah Bulbul also confirmed that two more students of the school had died on the day.

Of the 34 deceased victims, 27 are students of the school.

Twelve critically injured victims were undergoing treatment at different hospitals on the day.

The number of missing people in the incident is five till Thursday.

They include three students and two guardians.

Till July 22, the number of injured people in the crash was 165, according to the Inter Services Public Relations directorate.

Among the deceased, 27 were children, including many under 12 years of age, two were schoolteachers, and one was the aircraft’s pilot.

However, according to the Directorate General of Health Services, the death toll in the aircraft crash stood at 30, reported BSS.