At Least 19 Killed, Scores Injured as Bangladesh Air Force Jet Crashes Into College Campus

“A third-grade student was brought in dead, and three others, aged 12, 14, and 40, were admitted to the hospital,” burn unit chief Bidhan Sarker said.

Firefighters and army members work next to the wreckage of a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft after it crashed into the Milestone College campus in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on July 21, 2025. Stringer/Reuters

DHAKA, Bangladesh—At least 19 people were killed and 164 injured as a Bangladesh Air Force training jet crashed into a college and school campus in the capital of Dhaka on July 21, after it experienced a technical problem shortly after takeoff, a military spokesperson said.

The F-7 BGI jet took off at 1:06 p.m. local time from the Bangladesh Air Force base in the Kurmitola neighborhood of Dhaka, as part of a routine training mission, but encountered a mechanical failure, according to spokesperson Lt. Col. Sami Ud Dowla Chowdhury.