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Sylhet medical mourns death of Nepali students

Tue Mar 13, 2018 12:27 PM
Last update on: Tue Mar 13, 2018 02:48 PM

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Tue Mar 13, 2018 12:27 PM Last update on: Tue Mar 13, 2018 02:48 PM

Sylhet’s Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College students

Students of Sylhet’s Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College wearing black badges on March 13, 2018, in mourning of the 13 Nepalese students who died during the US-Bangla Airlines plane crash in Nepal. Photo: Shaikh Nasir

Sylhet’s Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College began a three-day mourn today, following the death of 13 of its students – all Nepalese – in yesterday’s plane crash at Kathmandu.

Today, on the first day, they wore black badges and bunked all classes and examinations, our Moulvibazar correspondent reports quoting its Principal Prof Dr Abed Hossain.

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13 medical students were in aircraft

“We have 250 Nepalese medical students studying here. Yesterday, 13 of our students boarded the flight for a vacation home after MBBS finals,” Prof Dr Abed Hossain told The Daily Star.

Eleven out of 13 Nepali students of the Sylhet medical college who were on board the ill-fated aircraft that crashed in Kathmandu are reported to have died, according to sources in Nepal and Bangladesh.

The students are Sanjay Poudel, Sanjaya Maharjan, Neega Maharjan, Anjila Shrestha, Purnima Lohani, Shweta Thapa, Meeli Maharjan, Saruna Shrestha, Algina Baral, Charu Baral, Samira Byanjankar, Ashna Shakya and Princy Dhami, said the sources.