Nasir Uddin, an elderly man appearing to be over 70 years old, arrived alone at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (NIBPS) on Tuesday morning — defying his family’s instructions — to donate blood for the children injured and burned after a Bangladesh Air Force F-7 BGI training jet crashed into Milestone School and College’s Diabari campus on Monday, killing 31 so far, along with the pilot.+
The tragedy has shaken the nation to its core, with videos and images of the charred bodies of children being rescued from the wreckage going viral on social media. The videos also show students running for help and the sheer horror of parents who had sent their children to school in the capital, not to a combat zone. Dozens of victims ended up at NIBPS. Doctors have called for donors with negative blood types since Tuesday morning, and as a result, dozens gathered at the hospital to register their names to donate; among them, the elderly Nasir Uddin. Despite needing physical assistance to move, Nasir Uddin made the difficult journey alone, quietly slipping out of his home in defiance of his family’s wishes.
