Air India Ahmedabad plane crash victims

Grief surrounds as people lost their lives when a London-bound Air India plane carrying 242 passengers and crew crashed into the B.J. Medical College in Meghani Nagar just moments after take-off on June 12, 2025.
A tragedy that saddened everyone as many people's hopes and dreams became despair.
Air India announced that 241 of the 242 passengers and crew had died in the crash. There is no confirmation yet on the number of deaths in the medical college and elsewhere in the area. The hospital mortuary has been pushed to its breaking point. Doctors and staff have transformed the post-mortem waiting area into an emergency mortuary.
Dozens of anxious family members have been waiting outside an Ahmedabad hospital to collect the bodies of loved ones killed in the crash, as doctors were working overtime to gather dental samples from the deceased to run identification checks and DNA profiling. As of June 19, the authorities have identified 215 victims of the Air India Flight AI-171 crash through matching DNA samples, with 198 bodies already handed over to their families.

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