, Sept. 24 -- The government has extended the tenure of the probe commission formed to investigate the Uttara Milestone School and College plane crash.

A Cabinet Division circular issued Tuesday night said the commission's term has been extended by 23 more days - from September 24 to October 16.

The commission, headed by former secretary AKM Jafar Ullah Khan, was earlier asked to submit its report within four weeks. Its term was later extended once, and now again.

The nine-member commission includes former Air Vice Marshal (retd) M Sayeed Hossain, additional secretaries from the Defence, Civil Aviation and Tourism, and Disaster Management ministries, the Dhaka Divisional Commissioner, urban planner Prof Adil Muhammad Khan, BUET profess...