Volunteer rescuers describe horror at India plane crash site


Modi visiting the fire-blackened multi-storey building with the plane's wheels and tail embedded in a wall. - AFP

AHMEDABAD: Volunteers who rushed to help after a passenger jet crashed into a residential neighbourhood of India's Ahmedabad city described Friday (June 13) the intense fireball they faced -- and the challenge ahead to identify the bodies of at least 265 victims.

Bharat Solanki, 51, was working at a fuel station when the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner -- carrying 242 passengers and crew -- took off from nearby Ahmedabad airport around lunchtime on Thursday.

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