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At least 19 dead after air force jet crashes into Bangladesh school

At least 19 people have died and 164were injured after a Bangladeshi air force training jet crashed into a school campus in the capital, Dhaka, the BBC reports.

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 (07:06 GMT). The pilot was among those killed, the air force added.

More than 50 people, including children and adults, were taken to hospital with burns, a doctor at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery said.

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