DNA tests identify 80 Air India plane crash victims
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Gujarat Health Minister Rushikesh Patel on Sunday said that the DNA of 45 deceased have been matched with their relatives, and confirmed that the death toll in the Ahmedabad plane crash stands at 274.
The victims identified so far were from different places in Gujarat and Rajasthan. A total of 241 passengers and crew on board were killed in the tragedy besides 29, including 5 MBBS students, on the ground in Meghaninagar area.
A doctor from Gujarat cannot stop thanking his wife and family members after he cancelled an Air India flight in which he planned to fly to London on June 12.
The disaster in the Indian state of Gujarat affected thousands in Britain’s Gujarati diaspora. Some of them came together on Saturday to remember the victims.
Search and recovery teams continued scouring the site of one of India's worst aviation disasters for a third day after the Air India flight fell from the sky and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state,
An Air India pilot's final decision may have prevented greater tragedy in a deadly crash that killed 270, leaving one survivor.
A father of two who had traveled from the U.K. to India to spread his wife's ashes died in the Air India crash on June 12, leaving the couple's two daughters, ages 4 and 8, orphaned. Arjun Patoliya, 37,
The heartbreaking Air India tragedy has left two young children without parents after their dad, Arjun Patoliya, 37, was killed in the crash. Just 18 days earlier, their mum, Bharti, died following a courageous battle with cancer. A GoFundMe page set up to support the orphaned girls, aged four and eight, has already raised over £370,000.