Grief counsellors to be assigned to kin of Ahmedabad aircraft crash victims: Official

As many as 230 groups have been shaped to coordinate with households of the victims, Gujarat reduction commissioner and income secretary Alok Pandey informed reporters on Saturday.

In order to keep away from any administrative downside, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation will concern a demise certificates on the spot. The village patwari can then instantly concern a household relation card in order that they don’t face any inheritance concern, he mentioned.

Teams have been shaped and assigned to particular person households with a rank of a deputy collector or tehsildar rank officer. Bodies might be handed over to the households and brought in ambulance to the village or district with a police pilot, Pandey mentioned.

“A grief counsellor will be assigned to every family to deal with the mental trauma,” Pandey mentioned.

The official mentioned contact has been established with the households of 11 international nationals.

Most of the foreigners killed within the aircraft crash are UK nationals.

“One entire team has been set up for the foreign nationals. We have contacted the Deputy British Consul General. Our deputy collector-rank officer is in touch with them. The MEA , Air India are in touch with them,” Pandey mentioned.

All however one of many 242 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 787-8 and one other 29 individuals, together with 5 MBBS college students, on the bottom had been killed when the plane got here down on Thursday moments after taking off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport earlier than falling contained in the close by campus of the state-run BJ Medical College in Meghaninagar space and going up in flames.

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