The Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Service (AFES) has recovered some human body parts as well as a corpse in the past 24 hours from the plane crash site in the Meghaninagar area, where the medical hostel is located.
The process of identifying victims by matching the DNA samples is currently underway, and the bodies will be handed over to their relatives once the process is complete.
The ill-fated flight carried 242 people - 230 passengers, two pilots and 10 crew members - and killed 241 of them and left just one survivor, a British national of Indian-origin, who is hospitalised
Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu, in his first briefing after the Air India flight crash in Ahmedabad on Thursday, said that the black box data from the ill-fated aircraft is being decoded, while multiple agencies and high-level panels are conducting an extensive probe into the incident. The black box data is expected to provide crucial information about the cause of the crash.
The death toll in Thursday's tragic Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad rose to 270 as those injured on the ground succumbed to their injuries, according to doctors.
Flight AI 171, which was headed to London's Gatwick airport, crashed into the BJ Medical hostel and its canteen complex, minutes after taking off from the Ahmedabad airport on Thursday afternoon. The authorities had earlier pegged the death toll at 265.
General Gholamreza Mehrabi, deputy head of intelligence of the armed forces general staff, and General Mehdi Rabbani, deputy head of operations, were killed, according to state media. Iran also confirmed that its Fordo nuclear facility sustained limited damage following recent Israeli strikes, semi-official ISNA news agency said.
"There has been limited damage to some areas at the Fordow enrichment site. We had already moved a significant part of the equipment and materials out, and there was no extensive damage and there are no contamination concerns," state atomic energy agency spokesperson Behrouz Kamalvandi said.
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