DHAKA, Aug 9, 2025 (BSS) – Two more burn victims in the Milestone jet crash at Uttara in the capital are likely to be discharged tomorrow from the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (NIBPS). 
 
“Two more burn victims, out of 26, undergoing treatment at the burn institute are likely to be released tomorrow,” Resident Surgeon Dr Shawon Bin Rahman of the NIBPS told BSS today over phone. 
 
He said they will make a decision on their release after tomorrow’s visit of the patients. 
 
Dr Shawon said they have already discharged 12 burn survivors from the burn institute , who were admitted to the hospital, after a BAF fighter plane smashed into a two-storey school building of the Milestone School and College in the capital’s Uttara on July 21.
    
“As many as 26 burn victims in the jet crash are now undergoing treatment at the burn institute. The condition of two patients is still critical and they are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) while one of them is on life support,” he said. 
 
Of the 26 patients now undergoing treatment at the burn institute, 23 are children (female 15 and male 8) and three females are adults while seven of them have inhalation injuries and five have over 30 percent burn injuries, Dr Shawon said.  
 
Twenty of the injured are now receiving treatment at different wards of the burn institute.  
 
The physician said a total of 215 small and large operations on the fire victims have so far been conducted.
 
A total of 18 victims have succumbed to their burn injuries in the institute while one at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. 
    
Earlier on July 21st, a fighter jet of the air force slammed into a two storey building of the Milestone School and College due to mechanical fault minutes after taking off after 1pm, killing 33 so far, Health and Family Welfare Ministry sources confirmed.
 
Pilot of the fighter jet Flight Lieutenant Towkir Islam also died in the crash.