India, July 22 -- At least 27 people have died after a Bangladesh air force training jet crashed into a campus of a private school in the country's capital, Dhaka, on Monday.

The F-7 BGI jet, a variant of a Chinese fighter, crashed into the campus of the Milestone School and College in the Uttara neighbourhood of Dhaka. The pilot was among the dead.

According to the military and a fire official cited by the Associated Press, over 170 people, mostly students, have been injured.

Bangladesh's military said that the jet took off from Bangladesh Air Force Base A K Khandaker in Dhaka's Kurmitola neighbourhood at 1:06pm local time and crashed soon after.

It said that the aircraft experienced a "technical malfunction," adding that a high-leve...