Bodies returned after air crash


Last journey home: Relatives unloading the coffin containing the remains of Megha Mehta, a victim of the Air India plane crash, upon its arrival at a crematorium during her funeral in Ahmedabad. — AP

Grieving families began holding fune­rals in India for their relatives who were among at least 279 killed in one of the world’s worst plane crashes in decades.

Health officials yesterday have begun handing over the first passenger bodies identified through DNA testing, delivering them in white coffins in the western city of Ahmedabad.

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