Onlookers are seen via a burnt classroom window of a college constructing after a #Bangladesh air pressure coaching jet crashed into it Monday in #Dhaka, #Bangladesh, on July 22, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP
The 46-year-old English instructor went again many times right into a burning classroom to rescue her college students, whilst her personal garments had been engulfed in flames, her brother, Munaf Mojib Chowdhury, informed #Reuters by phone.
Ms. Maherin died on Monday after struggling close to whole burns on her physique. She is survived by her husband and two teenaged sons.
“When her husband called her, pleading with her to leave the scene and think of her children, she refused, saying ‘they are also my children, they are burning. How can I leave them?'” Mr. Chowdhury mentioned.
At least 29 folks, most of them kids, had been killed when the F-7 BGI crashed into the varsity, trapping them in hearth and particles. The army mentioned the plane had suffered mechanical failure.
“I don’t know exactly how many she saved, but it may have been at least 20. She pulled them out with her own hands,” he mentioned, including that he came upon about his sister’s act of bravery when he visited the hospital and met college students she had rescued.
The jet had taken off from a close-by air base on a routine coaching mission, the army mentioned. After experiencing mechanical failure the pilot tried to divert the plane away from populated areas, nevertheless it crashed into the campus. The pilot was amongst these killed.
“When the plane crashed and fire broke out, everyone was running to save their lives, she ran to save others,” Khadija Akter, the headmistress of the varsity’s major part, informed #Reuters on telephone about Ms. Maherin.
She was buried on Tuesday in her house district of Nilphamari, in northern #Bangladesh.
Published – July 23, 2025 06:21 pm IST
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