The death toll in the Bangladesh Air Force jet crash on a building of Milestone School and College at Uttara in the city reached 31 on Tuesday while seven bodies were yet to be identified.
Among the deceased, 24 were children, including many under 12, with extensive burn injuries while two others were schoolteachers and one was the aircraft鈥檚 pilot, said the special assistant to the chief adviser for health and family welfare ministry, Sayedur Rahman, at a press briefing.
Three students remained missing and on the day their parents submitted their DNA samples at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka.
Till Tuesday, 21 bodies were handed over to the families.
The number of injured people in the crash came down to 165 on the day from 171, as per the Inter Services Public Relations directorate.
The interim government early Tuesday postponed the Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations that were scheduled to be held on Tuesday and Thursday across the country.
At least 100 students were injured after several hundred HSC examinees from various colleges in the capital stormed into the Bangladesh Secretariat and got locked into a clash with the Bangladesh Army and police members demanding the resignation of the education ministry adviser and secretary alleging their failure to postpone the examinations earlier.
Following the violent protest, the education ministry鈥檚 Secondary and Higher Education Division senior secretary Siddique Zobair has been withdrawn from his position the same day.
Protesting students of Milestone School and College confined law adviser Asif Nazrul, education adviser CR Abrar, chief adviser鈥檚 press secretary Shafiqul Alam and deputy press secretary Abul Kalam Azad Mozumder on the campus on the day for over eight hours.
They were demanding the disclosure of the real number of deaths and injured people in the crash, compensations for the victims from the Bangladesh Air Force and removing the risky and old aircraft from the BAF fleet.
Outside Dhaka, demonstrations were held by students in different parts of the country, including Barishal, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Chattogram, and Naogaon districts, protesting over the crash and demanding the postponement of the HSC exams for Tuesday.聽
On the day, the government observed a one-day state mourning marking the sad incident.
A tragedy unfolded on Monday afternoon when a Bangladesh Air Force fighter crashed into a building of Milestone School and College, killing at least 31 and injuring 165, according to a press release issued by the Inter Services Public Relations directorate with update till 12:00pm on Tuesday.
The Directorate General of Health Services under the health and family welfare ministry also published updates about the deceased and injured patients till 12:30pm on the day.
As per the updates, the patients who expired in the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery are Bappy, 9, Arikson, 13, Ariyan, 13, Nazia, 13, Tanvir, 14, Afnan Faiyaz, 14, AB Samim 14, Shayan Yousuf, 14, Masuka, 37 and Mahrin, 46.聽
The patients who expired in the Combined Military Hospital Dhaka are Md Samiul Karim, 9, Fatema Akter, 9, Mehna Afarin Humayra, 9, Saad Salauddin, 9, Sayma Akter, 9, Nusrat Jahan Anika, 10, Sariya Akter, 13, Rojoni Islam, 37 and Flight Lt. Md Towkir Islam. At the same hospital six unidentified bodies and one remains were being preseved.
In Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Junayed, 9, died and in the United Hospital, Gulshan, Omayer Nur Ashfiq, 11, died.
As per the DGHS, 21 bodies were handed over to the families.
Special assistant Sayedur Rahman in a press briefing at the National Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit on Tuesday morning said that among the deceased 25 were children, many of them under 12, with extensive burn injuries.
Two other victims were the aircraft鈥檚 pilot Flight Lieutenant Towkir Islam and a female schoolteacher, he said.
He also said that DNA samples of the six charred unidentified bodies were collected for identifications.
Besides these 27 people, there existed remains of one being and a process was under way to confirm if the remains belonged to a human being, he added.
The same afternoon, Sayedur Rahman at another press briefing at the same place said that among the deceased 24 were students, two were teachers and one was the jet pilot.
On Tuesday, families of three missing Class-III students -- Raisa Moni, Afia Umme Marium, and Wakia Ferdous Nidhi -- went to the Combined Military Hospital to submit their DNA samples.
Md Shahabul, father of Raisa, told 抖阴精品 that he was sure that one of the unidentified bodies was his daughter鈥檚 but the hospital authorities asked for the DNA test.
Sayed Billal Hossain, paternal uncle of Wakia, said that Wakia鈥檚 father Faruq Hossain gave his DNA sample at the hospital at about 3:00pm.
Sayem Ahmed Shanto, cousin of Afia, said that Afia鈥檚 father Abdul Qader gave his DNA sample at the hospital.
A press release, issued by the chief adviser鈥檚 press wing on Tuesday morning, read that a control room will be opened by the school authorities at the school.
However, after visiting the school on the day, no such help desk was found.
Milestone School and College鈥檚 public relations officer Shah Bulbul said that till Monday night they got information about two missing students but he could not give the names.
Quoting the school authorities, a source from the chief adviser鈥檚 press wing, also said that two students remained missing in the incident till Tuesday.聽
Special assistant to the chief adviser Sayedur Rahman also said that a total of 69 injured people, mostly children, were undergoing treatment at different city hospitals.
Ten injured people at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery were in a critical condition, he mentioned.
Urging the people not to crowd hospitals unnecessarily, he also said that a three-member medical team from Singapore General Hospital was scheduled to arrive in the capital on Tuesday night to ensure advanced treatment for the injured.
Health and family welfare adviser Noorjahan Begum at the afternoon press briefing at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery said that once the doctors from Singapore arrive, they would assess the patients鈥� conditions and decide whether any of the victims needed to be transferred abroad for further treatment.
Meanwhile, the NIBPS authority strictly restricted access of people to the hospital since Tuesday morning while only patients, their relatives, and hospital staff were being allowed inside.
Journalists, too, were not being allowed in the hospital without permission from the authorities.
While briefing reporters following the namaz-e-janaza of Flight Lieutenant Towkir Islam in Dhaka, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Hasan Mahmood Khan said that they had already formed a probe committee and would take future actions following the findings.聽
He assured that the Bangladesh Air Force would stand beside the injured alongside the government for their treatment.