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More than 170 people were injured after the training aircraft crashed, military officials said. The country’s interim leader called the loss “irreparable.”
The pilot attempted to divert the aircraft away from densely populated areas to minimize civilian casualties and damage, but his efforts were unsuccessful.
A Bangladesh Air Force training jet has crashed into a school campus in Dhaka, the country's capital, killing at least 20 people.
The Bangladesh Air Force jet crashed into the Milestone College school campus on Monday, killing at least 20 people, including the pilot, and injuring 171