The death toll from the July 21 fighter jet crash into a building of Milestone School and College at Uttara in the capital reached 35 as two more victims succumbed to their burn injuries on Saturday.
On the day, six students were released from three hospitals.
As of Saturday evening, 46 people, injured in the jet crash, were undergoing treatment in seven hospitals in the city with four of them in critical condition, said health and family welfare ministry officials.
No one among the casualties now remains unidentified or missing since the identities of five charred bodies were ascertained by the forensic DNA laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Department on Thursday.
On Saturday, along with the local physicians, the foreign physicians who have flown in to Bangladesh to give treatment to the crash victims also oversaw the treatment process.
Milestone authorities said that their campus would remain closed at least till tomorrow.聽
On Saturday, Zarif Farhan, 13, a Class VII student of the school, died at 9:10am, and Masuma Behum, 32, a school attendant, succumbed to her injuries at 10:15am at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, according to the health and family welfare ministry.
Zarif received 40 per cent burns and Masuma 90 per cent on their bodies, officials said.
According to Milestone authorities, 26 are schoolchildren, three guardians, two schoolteachers, and one school attendant among the 32 deceased.
The educational institution鈥檚 public relations officer Shah Bulbul said that they had slightly revised the number of deceased guardians by reducing the number from four to three.
鈥楨arlier we counted a same deceased mother Rajoni Islam twice for her two children, who study in the school,鈥� he said and mentioned that all 32 bodies were handed over to the families.聽聽
On July 21, the pilot was killed in the crash.
On Saturday till 4:00pm, the health and family welfare ministry shared updates about the deceased and injured victims, as per which 35 were killed in the crash and 48 were undergoing treatment in four hospitals.
Earlier, following the crash, seven charred bodies remained unidentified at the Combined Military Hospital Dhaka till July 23.
Members of the CID DNA lab collected a total of 11 DNA samples from the unidentified bodies and body parts on July 22 and then identities of five bodies were confirmed on July 24 through DNA tests.
The five bodies included three of missing students and two of missing guardians.
Burn institute director Professor Mohammad Nasir Uddin at a press briefing on Saturday around 2:30pm聽 said that two more died in the institute on the day.
Out of the 36 patients undergoing treatment at the institute four were in critical condition and nine in severe condition.
Among the four critical patients in the intensive care unit, one is on ventilation support, he mentioned.
Professor Nasir said that they were hoping to discharge another 10 injured by the next week.
The institute鈥檚 resident surgeon (emergency), Shawon Bin Rahman, confirmed at about 5:00pm on Saturday that two students Ayan Khan, 12, and Rafsi Akter Rafia, 12, were discharged from institute and went to their homes.
According to an official statement of the Milestone authorities, published on its Facebook page, on Saturday three students were discharged from Uttara Adhunik Medical College Hospital and one from Lubana General Hospital and Cardiac Centre.
Milestone public relations officer Shah Bulbul said that the statement was about the institution鈥檚 affected students, teachers, guardians, and staff only.
The same day, three more were admitted to Uttara Adhunik Medical College Hospital, two to the Combined Military Hospital and one to Ship International Hospital, the statement read.
Shah Bulbul also said that Milestone would be closed till Monday and a decision would be taken soon if the institution would open on Tuesday.
