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DHAKA, July 21, 2025 (BSS) – The Fire Service and Civil Defence (FSCD) has announced to complete the rescue operation tonight after recovery of the bodies and rescuing the injured people following a Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) FT-7 BGI fighter aircraft crashed into a building of Milestone School and College in the capital’s Uttara area, leaving 20 killed and 171 injured. 

“We have completed the rescue operation at 8:30pm today,” officer-in-charge, media cell of the FSCD Md Shajahan Sikder told BSS tonight.

But a unit of the FSCD was present at the occurrence site till removing the debris of the crashed aircraft, he said, adding that the team had returned to the work station at 9:10pm today. 

The FSCD started the rescue operation at 1:22pm today after they had received the news of the plane crash at 1:18 in the afternoon. 

The FSCD rescued 116 injured people and 19 bodies from the place of occurrence. 
A total of 186 personnel of the FSCD had been entrusted with the task of completing the rescue operation.  

At least 20 people including the pilot were killed and 171 injured, said the ISPR press release.
 
“Twenty people including Flight Lieutenant Toukir Islam have so far been killed and 171 others injured in the crash,” said the release.    

The aircraft crash took place due to mechanical fault (the details of which will be informed after investigation) after taking off from the Bangladesh Air Force Base AK Khandaker in Kurmitola at 01:06pm today as part of a regular training, the ISPR said.