Around 20 to 30 families have been called for body identification. They are being directed to the mortuary wing,” a senior hospital official told Outlook. The verification process has been fraught with emotional trauma, as most bodies are charred and dismembered beyond recognition.

We didn’t know what to do — it was like our brains stopped working,” said one intern who escaped the building after an Air India jet crashed, killing at least 260 people.

All but one of the 242 people on board the London-bound flight died when it crashed into a residential area in Ahmedabad shortly after take-off.

As investigators sift through the wreckage of the Air India Dreamliner that plunged into a medical college complex in Ahmedabad, families mourn loved ones lost in an inferno, reports Namita Singh

Rekha Kshtriya, another eyewitness to the plane crash, recalled the chilling moments after the sheer tragedy and stated that even though her family was accustomed to loud noises, the sound of the crash felt like their eardrums would burst.

Investigators on Friday searched the site of one of India’s worst aviation disasters, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with the lone surviving passenger a day after an Air India plane split apart and fell from the sky,

At the hospital, Vishwash Ramesh remains in a guarded room, recovering from internal injuries. When asked what he remembers of the crash, he looked away, his voice trembling. “I don’t know how I made it out alive,” he said. “I hope my brother is also alive.”

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Air India Flight 171, which was bound for Gatwick ... dining room for medical students who were eating their lunch. The crash site is at the student mess hall of the B J Medical College, just ...