The Milestone School and College will resume classes partially today 15 days after a Bangladesh Air Force fighter jet crashed into it, killing at least 34 people, most of them primary-level students of the educational institution located in the capital鈥檚 Uttara.
Scores of others, mostly schoolchildren, were injured in the incident on July 21.
Today, the academic activities of the classes of IX to XII levels will resume.
No decision has been taken yet to resume the academic activities of the classes of Play Group to VIII, said Milestone School and College public relations officer Shah Bulbul.
According to the Milestone authorities, among the deceased, 27 are schoolchildren, three student guardians, two schoolteachers and one school attendant. The pilot was also killed in the crash.
No one among the casualties remained unidentified or missing, they said.
As of Monday, the latest update provided by the health and family welfare ministry, 34 people injured in the jet crash were undergoing treatment at three hospitals in the capital Dhaka.
On Sunday, students of the classes of IX to XII came to the educational institution鈥檚 campus, but no classes were held. Prayer sessions were held at the campus throughout the day.
On that day Milestone School and College principal Mohammad Ziaul Alam said that they had already fallen behind by two weeks for making preparations for the next year鈥檚 Secondary School Certificate and Higher Secondary Certificate examinations on full syllabuses, while many guardians had urged them to reopen the classes of IX to XII.
The classes of Play Group to VIII might resume from the next week, he added.
Three counselling teams operated by the Bangladesh Air Force, BRAC University and Milestone were working at present to counsel the students and the guardians.
A delegation of several physicians and nurses from Singapore, China and India also came to Bangladesh after the jet crash to assist the Bangladeshi physicians in dealing with the situation.
