Jun 15, 2025 07:00 PM IST

With our bodies burnt past recognition or broken in any other case, authorities are finishing up DNA assessments to ascertain the id of victims of the horrific tragedy.

Three days after a London-bound Air India airplane crashed in Ahmedabad, authorities right here have to this point recognized 47 victims via DNA testing and our bodies of 24 have been handed over to their households, an official stated on Sunday. 

300 ambulances have been parked close to the mortuary within the Civil Hospital for transport of the Air India airplane crash victims’ our bodies to their hometowns. Ahmedabad(Raju Shinde/HT Photo)

As lots of the our bodies have been burnt past recognition or broken in any other case, authorities are finishing up DNA assessments to ascertain the id of victims of the horrific tragedy. 

“A total of 47 plane crash victims have been identified so far through DNA matching. Of these, bodies of 24 victims have been handed over to the respective families. These deceased were from Rajasthan and different parts of Gujarat,” Additional Civil Superintendent Dr Rajnish Patel advised reporters. 

All however one of many 242 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 787-8 (AI171) and one other 29 individuals, together with 5 MBBS college students, on the bottom have been killed within the airplane crash on Thursday. 

The plane crashed into the campus of a medical school in Meghaninagar moments after taking off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport at 1:39pm on Thursday.