AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — Ahmedabad’s city police commissioner says there don’t appear to have been any survivors from an Air India airliner that crashed, and that there are likely also casualties from the area of the city where it went down.
The flight crashed midday shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad airport with more than 240 people on board.
“It appears there are no survivors in the plane crash,” Commissioner G.S. Malik told The Associated Press, adding that with the plane crashing in a residential area with offices, “some locals would have also died.”
“Exact figures on casualties are being ascertained,” he said.
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