National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (NIBPS). File photo

DHAKA, July 27, 2025 (BSS) – National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (NIBPS) today said four of the Milestone School jet crash victims they are treating are critical while health ministry said 33 people, mostly students, were killed so far in the tragedy.

“They (the four) are kept our ICU (Intensive Care Unit). Their condition is critical,” NIPBS director Professor Dr Nasir Uddin said.

He, however, said NIPBS, also known just as Burn Institute, today discharged two more crash victims while 34 more were still being treated at the specialised facility.

Six of the 34 injured sustained over 30 percent burn, the hospital director said.

Uddin said four burn wounded patients so far were released from the NIPBS after treatments while the two discharged today were Kazi Amjad Saeed (20), and Sabuja (40), an employee of the school.

Amjad sustained burn wounds as he joined the rescue campaign as a volunteer.

NIPBS earlier on Saturday afternoon released two Milestone students Rafsi Akhter Rafia, 12, and Ayan Khan, 12.

The Health and Family Welfare Ministry today said July 21 crash so far killed 34 students, teachers and others alongside wounding scores others.

The Burn Institute doctors said of the 34 wounded bering treated at their facility, 28 are children and they expected the nine of the 34 patients could recover fully.

Asked if the facility kept in mind the trauma issue of the victims, the NIPBS director said the unit chiefs were talking to the burn victims twice a day and the patients were being given psychological supports as well.

He said one of the patients was transferred to the National Institute of Mental Health.

The burn institute has treated a total of 56 patients with burn injuries after the jet crash while 17 of them so far succumbed to their injuries.