More than 200 India plane crash victims identified


People carry the coffin containing the body of Akash Patni, who died after an Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner plane crashed during take-off from an airport, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on June 17, 2025. - Photo: Reuters

AHMEDABAD, (India): More than 200 victims of the Air India jet crash have been identified through DNA testing, Indian authorities said Wednesday (June 18), inching towards ending an agonising wait for relatives.

There was one survivor out of 242 passengers and crew on board the London-bound plane on Thursday when it slammed into a residential area of Ahmedabad, killing at least 38 people on the ground.

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