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#Bangladesh #BBCNews At least 19 people have died and 164 were injured after a Bangladeshi air force training jet crashed into a school campus in the capital, Dhaka.   Footage from Milestone School and College in the northern suburb of Uttara shows a huge fire and thick smoke, after the aircraft slammed into a two-storey building.   The armed forces said in a statement on Facebook that the F-7 jet experienced a mechanical fault after taking off for a training exercise just after 13:00 local time.   The age range for students attending the school is between four and 18 years old.  Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog  For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news   #Bangladesh #BBCNews

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00:00now we start with our breaking news story in bangladesh where at least 19 people have been

00:04killed when an air force training jet lost control and crashed into a school compound in dhaka

00:11many of the dead are children a further 100 people are injured and there's been video circulating of

00:16the incident in the northern suburb of utara where you can see a huge fire thick plumes of smoke as

00:22well and these pictures here are of the aftermath and the rescue effort that started to take place

00:28soon after it happened the military confirming that one of its training planes did indeed crash

00:34our reporter shanawaj rocky is at the scene for us in dhaka so this is the building where the plane has

00:41crashed behind this building just 100 meters away from here nearly one o'clock the plane has crashed

00:47and that time most of the students were in the classroom and i have spoken to one of the eyewitness

00:53who told me the time when the plane has crashed that time one of his friends has died and he was

00:59in front of him and what he has saw that hundreds of the primary students were inside the classroom

01:05and 10 to 15 guardian were waiting outside and the plane collapsed on top of them so he expect he

01:12presumed that most of them have died but the number is not disclosed yet and this is there are also a

01:19residential building where many students used to live so their situation is also unknown the parents

01:27and guardians are waiting outside anxiously and waiting what we have seen at this moment the ambulance

01:34have come in and going out with lots of casualties there are few hospitals around the sites and they

01:42also admitted there the security forces army navy and air forces along with the fire service and

01:49other security forces has started the rescue operations so the site is totally cordoned people

01:56cannot get inside so the parents and the guardians are waiting outside to know what's happened to their

02:02loved one really awful scene there with the parents and families down at the school trying to figure out

02:10what's happened and whether or not their children are injured or have survived this let's take you to

02:16our correspondent yuta lamai who joins us from mumbai monitoring events we're keeping across what's

02:21happening in dhaka on the ground but so many questions here yuta what is the government and the

02:26air force saying about what happened you see we've now heard from a spokesperson for bangladesh's

02:34military services uh military services and they've said they've confirmed that this was a plane this was

02:40a jet from bangladesh's air force they say it was on a training mission they've said that it suffered

02:46mechanical failure shortly after takeoff uh details of that they will give once an investigation is carried

02:53out they say that the pilot uh in the aircraft did try to steer the aircraft away to a less densely populated

03:02area but wasn't able to do so in time and it hit a two-story building in that school campus they've also

03:10said that they've had uh helicopters in operation they're trying to uh take the injured to hospitals as

03:17quickly as possible we've also heard from the chief of bangladesh's fire department who says that the building

03:24that was hit it was a two-story building uh it housed classrooms for second and fourth grade students

03:32uh and he says that lessons had ended but that students were still there teachers were still there

03:40and some parents or people who'd come up uh come to pick up their kids were also still there we've also

03:45heard from my witnesses one of them saying that they were standing near the gate of the school

03:49uh when they heard this loud explosion and when they looked they only saw fire and smoke uh their

03:56children had managed to come out so uh the parents took the children and rushed away as fast as possible

04:02uh but the visuals we are seeing are of firefighters struggling to try to control that blaze uh they've

04:09been using big hoses uh shooting jets of water at the blaze and of course rescue operations still ongoing

04:16so if they're ongoing does that mean that we don't know whether everyone has been accounted for yet

04:22or not are there still potentially parents there who don't know what's happened to their children

04:27well so we've got some numbers from the bangladesh government and at the moment it's 19 dead and more

04:33than 160 injured we do not know yet if that is the total that you know that accounts for all

04:39of the people who were there lessons had just ended you know there would have been people there

04:43would have been parents as well who'd come to pick their kids up so these are details which will

04:48emerge over the next few hours we've seen uh here in india when we had that air crash uh in amdabar

04:55especially you know when there's been an explosion and a fire how much time it actually takes uh to not

05:03just know what the death toll is especially of the people on the ground uh but even to identify the

05:09bodies of those dead uh you know if they're in a condition where they cannot be identified by

05:15looking at them then there will have to be forensic and dna tests conducted uh we have heard from the

05:22leader of bangladesh's interim government muhammad younis uh who's announced a day of national

05:27mourning on tuesday yeah a deeply sad day for the country that national day of mourning has just been

05:35announced as yogita was saying we'll keep across developments thanks so much yogita yogita lamai

05:39joining us

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