Two more victims injured in the tragic training aircraft crash at Milestone School and College in Dhaka’s Uttara have died, raising the total death toll to 35, according to the Ministry of Health.
Among the deceased are 13-year-old Zarif Farhan, a seventh-grade English version student of the school, and 32-year-old Masuma, who worked there as an office assistant.
Zarif passed away at 9:10 a.m. on Saturday (July 26) while undergoing treatment at the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery. Shortly afterward, the institute also confirmed Masuma’s death.
Dr. Shawon Bin Rahman, resident surgeon at the institute, said Zarif had suffered burns on 40 percent of his body, including critical damage to his respiratory tract. He was on life support and died while being treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
Masuma, on the other hand, had sustained burns over 90 percent of her body, the doctor added.
With these deaths, the number of patients who have died at the burn institute following the crash now stands at 17.
Zarif’s father, Md. Habibur Rahman, said the family is originally from Sreepur in Rajbari Sadar Upazila. Zarif was the younger of his two children. They had been living in Uttara, Sector 12, Road 5.
The devastating crash occurred when a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed into a building on the Milestone campus in Diabari, making it one of the deadliest military aviation incidents in the country’s history.
