(MENAFN) The death toll from Monday’s tragic crash of a Bangladesh Air Force training plane into a school and college campus has climbed to 27, with 25 of the victims being children.

Md Sayedur Rahman, special assistant for health and family welfare to the chief adviser of the interim government, confirmed at a Tuesday press briefing that the remaining two fatalities were the aircraft’s pilot and a female schoolteacher.

Currently, at least 78 individuals are receiving medical care in various hospitals, with five in critical condition, Rahman added.

In response to the catastrophe, the government declared a one-day national mourning on Tuesday. On this day, the national flag will be flown at half-mast across all government, semi-government, autonomous agencies, educational institutions, private organizations nationwide, and at Bangladeshi diplomatic missions abroad.

Details from the Inter Services Public Relations Directorate reveal the Bangladesh Air Force plane was on a routine training flight, having taken off from A.K. Khandaker Air Base in Kurmitola, Dhaka, at 1:06 p.m. local time on Monday before it crashed into a two-storey school building shortly afterward.

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