{"id":72979,"date":"2025-07-22T00:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/21\/military-plane-crashes-people-killed-bangladesh-school-campus"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:56:07","slug":"at-least-20-killed-as-military-plane-crashes-into-bangladesh-school-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72979","title":{"rendered":"At least 20 killed as military plane crashes into Bangladesh school campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Injured number almost 200 after training jet had technical problem once airborne, with pilot among the dead<\/p>\n<p>At least 20 people were killed and nearly 200 injured \u2013 many of them children \u2013 when a Bangladeshi fighter jet on a routine training exercise crashed into a school in Dhaka in the country\u2019s worst aviation disaster in decades.<\/p>\n<p>The jet, a Chinese-made F-7BGI, hit the private Milestone school in the capital as students were ending or had left afternoon classes, witnesses said. It reportedly struck a five-storey academic building before crashing on to a two-storey structure on the campus, triggering a massive explosion and fire.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/21\/military-plane-crashes-people-killed-bangladesh-school-campus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Injured number almost 200 after training jet had technical problem once airborne, with pilot among the deadAt least 20 people were killed and nearly 200 injured \u2013 many of them children \u2013 when a Bangladeshi fighter jet on a routine training exercise cra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376,327,931,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transport","category-bangladesh","category-plane-crashes","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72980,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72979\/revisions\/72980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}