DNA of 32 Air India crash victims identified, bodies handed over to 14 families
Three days after an Air India Boeing plane en route to London from Ahmedabad crashed five minutes after take-off, authorities have identified the DNA of 32 out of 270 victims and have handed over the bodies to 14 families.Former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani was among the victims whose DNA was matched at around 11:10 am, and his body was handed over to his family at 1 am.advertisementMany of the victims that have been identified so far belong from Gujarat and Rajasthan, reported news agency PTI. The need to match victims' DNA arose after many bodies were charred beyond recognition in Thursday's crash.
"Thirty two DNA samples have matched till now, and 14 bodies have already been handed over to the respective families. These deceased were from Udaipur, Vadodara, Kheda, Mehsana, Arvalli, Ahmedabad and Botad districts," Additional Superintendent of Ahmedabad Civil Hospital Dr. Rajneesh Patel said, as reported by news agency PTI.As many as 230 teams were formed to coordinate with the victims' families, officials earlier said.The victims included 241 of the 242 passengers and crew members on board the London-bound flight. One passenger miraculously survived.All but one of the 242 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 787-8(AI171) and another 29 persons, including five MBBS students, on the ground were killed in the plane crash on Thursday.advertisementThe aircraft came down moments after taking off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport before falling inside the nearby campus of the Medical College in Meghaninagar area and going up in flames.Inputs from Atul Tiwari, Brijesh Doshi and PTI
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