US EditionAnguished Air India Crash Families Give DNA Samples to Help Identify Loved Ones
- An Air India Boeing 787-8 flight AI-171 carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew crashed minutes after takeoff from Ahmedabad airport on Thursday afternoon, bound for London.
- The crash caused severe destruction and many bodies were badly burnt, prompting officials to request DNA samples from family members to identify the victims.
- Family members have provided DNA samples at BJ Medical College's Kasauti Bhavan, where counselling support is arranged for the grief-stricken relatives.
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced that close to a thousand DNA tests are planned, noted that the process of recovering bodies is almost finished, and confirmed that at least seven identified bodies have been released to their families.
- The cause of the crash remains undetermined but a formal probe has started, and dental as well as DNA samples are being collected to aid identification and investigation.
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Family members have submitted DNA samples to identify the victims after Thursday's plane crash, but authorities cannot give them an answer as to when the bodies can be released.
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Just yesterday at Ahmedabad airport, Sangeeta Gauswami clung tightly to her only child, her heart swelling with pride as she saw off her 19-year-old son from their home in the western Indian state of Gujarat, to begin a new chapter at university in London.
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