, July 24 -- BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday met with the members of five families who lost their children in the recent plane crash at Milestone School and College in the city's Uttara area.

Fakhrul, along with some BNP leaders, first went to Tarartek in Diabari of Uttara and offered fateha at the graves of three students killed in the aircraft crash - Umayer Nur Ashiq, Borhan Uddin Bappy, and Mahit Hasan Arian - around 11am at their family graveyard, and prayed for the salvation of their departed souls.

Later, he met with the bereaved family members and spent time with them, offering words of comfort and support.

Ashiq, Bappy, and Arian belonged to the same family and were cousins.

The three of them gre...