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The National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery on Saturday discharged another child, who suffered burn injuries in the fighter jet crash at Milestone School and College in Uttara.

The discharged child is Shreya Ghosh, 9, a Class-III student of the school and daughter of Sukumar Ghosh, Resident Surgeon Shawon Bin Rahman of the burn institute told BSS today.


With Shreya, a total of nine burn victims were released so far from the institute as their conditions improved, he said.

Twenty-eight burn victims are now receiving treatment at the burn institute and four of them are now in critical condition, he said.

A fighter jet of the air force slammed into a two storey building of the Milestone School and College’ on July 21 minutes after taking off after 1:00 pm due to “mechanical fault.

The crash killed 33 people so far and most of them are students of the school, Health and Family Welfare Ministry sources confirmed.