'It's all gory; limbs blown away, body melting in fire': Milestone College student recalls horror
“Some school boys and girls had their body parts blow away. Some of them, with severe burns, were screaming and trying to escape from the fire,” he said
The college hour was about to end. In a few minutes, the bell would ring and they would leave for home. Suddenly a blast startled them all.
Perplexed, they thought an electric transformer might have exploded somewhere.
This is how Rahik Mahmud, a student of Milestone College, came to be aware of the jet plane crash on their campus.
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"And after a few seconds, screams were coming from the direction of the school section," he told The Business Standard.
"At that, we all ran down the stairs of our building and went to the school, which is only a few hundred metres away.
"At the spot where the jet crashed into a classroom, a huge fire was raging, with unbearable heat and smoke all around. Some school boys and girls had their body parts blow away. Some of them, with severe burns, were screaming and trying to escape from the fire.
"A woman was lying on the ground with one part of her head gone. A boy, with burns all over his body and his burned skin coming off, was running for help. A body was charred beyond recognition.
"In the meantime, parents, who came to know about the incident from TV scroll, were searching for their kids. Some swooned and collapsed, and while others entreated people, seeking the whereabouts of their children.
"In the midst of such a scary situation, some people, onlookers to say, were busy filming and sometimes asked rescuers to make space for them," he lamented the lack of sensitivity among some people.
