When a Bangladesh Air Force fighter jet crashed into her school and erupted in a fireball on Monday, Maherin Chowdhury rushed to save some of the hundreds of students and teachers facing mortal danger, placing their safety before her own.The 46-year-old English teacher went back again and again into a burning classroom to rescue her students, even as her own clothes were engulfed in flames.

Her brother, Munaf Mojib Chowdhury, told Reuters that Maherin died on Monday after suffering near total burns on her body.

She is survived by her husband and two teenaged sons.When her husband called her, pleading with her to leave the scene and think of her children, she refused, saying ‘they are also my children, they are burning.

How can I leave them?’At least 29 people, most of them children, were killed when the F-7 BGI crashed into the school, trapping them in fire and debris.

The military said the aircraft had suffered mechanical failure.It is believed that Maherin saved at least 20 students by pulling them out with her own hands.

She was buried on Tuesday in her home district of Nilphamari, in northern Bangladesh.