Police revise death toll in India plane crash to more than 240


  • World
  • Friday, 13 Jun 2025

A jet of water is sprayed onto a building as security personnel stand at the crash site after an Air India aircraft, bound for London's Gatwick Airport, crashed during take-off from an airport in Ahmedabad, India June 12, 2025. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Police in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad said more than 240 people were killed on Thursday when an Air India plane bound for London with 242 people on board crashed on to a medical college hostel, revising an earlier death toll of 294.

Vidhi Chaudhary, a top police officer in Ahmedabad, told Reuters the death toll shared with media previously included double counted body parts.

(Reporting by Shivam Patel in New Delhi; Editing by Chris Reese)

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