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Sometimes tragedy causes heroic people and actions. In the case of a Bangladeshi teacher who gave her life in exchange for 20 children, there are few official government words to thank her. Still, the teacher still found the humility and selflessness, “I did my best” before closing his eyes at the end.
“These kids are my kids too,” Marlene Chowdhury told her sad husband I’m almost dying in the hospital According to To the BBC.
On Monday, July 22nd, thousands of students were scheduled to leave the milestone school and university on the outskirts of Uttara in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital. School day ended that day. Tragedy as a Bangladesh F-7 Air Force training jet has barreled down to school campus, killing 31 people and injuring at least 170 people.
It burns almost all of her body
Over 50 people were rushed to the hospital with burns. Many of them were in danger. Among them was a burn that covered virtually 100% of her body.
Many of the victims were students who were just allowed to leave school when the plane crashed. Twenty-five of the victims were children between the ages of 4 and 18.
University teacher Rezaul Islam told BBC Bangla that he saw the plane hit the building “directly.”
Another teacher, Massoud Tarik; I said Reuters said he heard the explosion: “When I turned around, I only saw the fire and smoke… there were many parents and children here.”
Chowdry was outside the building, safe distance from the actual collision, but she noticed that there were still students in the building classroom. She decided she had to go back to the burning school to try and rescue as many children as possible.
“I did my best.”
“I did my best to pull out 20 to 25 people as much as I could,” Chowdhury’s husband Mansour Heral recalls the moment before she was ventilated in the intensive care unit of the National Burn Institute in Dhaka. “I don’t know what happened after that.”
Unfortunately, the heroine passed away on Monday. Because in the process of saving the children, she was burned almost every body.
Helal told BBC Bangla that he first called his wife after hearing that Fighterjet had crashed into his wife’s work centre. And when she didn’t answer his phone, he asked his eldest son to go to school and find out what had happened.
Soon he received a call from the ambulance driver who notified him that his wife had been taken to the Burns squad at Uttara Modern Medical Hospital.
Helal said Chowdhury apologized from his hospital bed shortly before he got in the ventilation. He broke with tears as he remembered their final moments together.
“She was still alive. She spoke the best words with her spiritual strength,” he said.
Chowdhury lay down to rest
Chowdhury had given 17 years of life to milestone schools and universities. She was buried on Tuesday in Nirfamari’s hometown in northern Bangladesh, and she was buried as the flag flew in half masts nationwide on mourning day for the victims.
Bangladeshi forces said the F7 jet experienced a mechanical defect shortly after taking off for a training exercise at 13:00 local time (07:00 GMT) on Monday, and Li, during the flight of the pilot, tried to pilot it towards a less crowded area. He was among those who died that fatal day.
This crash marks the most deadly aviation disaster the country has seen in decades. Bangladesh’s interim government leader, Muhammad Yunus, said an investigation committee was established to investigate the case, but he said there was no intention to compensate the victim’s family.
