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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Hero teachers killed trying to save children from Bangladesh fighter jet blast

At least three teachers died trying to get young children to safety after a fighter jet crashed into a school in Bangladesh’s capital on Monday, killing at least 31 people in one of the worst aviation disasters in the country’s history.

So far 25 school pupils, most of them under the age of 12, have been reported killed in the crash which saw a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft come down on top of a school building in Dhaka's densely populated Uttara neighbourhood.

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