Officials say many feared dead after aircraft crashes into a doctors’ hostel in the city of Ahmedabad
Air India plane crash – latest updates
Many people are feared to have been killed after a London-bound Air India flight with 242 people onboard crashed into a hostel for doctors in India’s north-western city of Ahmedabad, officials said.
The country’s federal health minister said “many people” had died after the Boeing 787-8 crashed into a residential area called Meghani Nagar five minutes after taking off at 1.38pm local time.
At least 30 bodies have been recovered from a building at the site of the crash and more people were trapped inside, rescue personnel told Reuters.
