At least 290 people gave up the ghost after a passenger plane crashed on departure at an airport in Ahmedabad, India, health officials said.
The plane, en route to London, hit a hostel for medical doctors when it crashed, and images show its tail protruding from the building.
According to police, the death toll includes people on the plane and others on the ground.
A total of 242 people were aboard the Air India flight when it crashed.
241 of those aboard the flight were killed in the crash, the airline said while only one passenger, a British national, survived.
In addition, the crash killed people on the ground after the plane hit a hostel for doctors.
At least 269 bodies had been brought to the city’s Civil Lines hospital, senior police official Vishaka Dabral told The Washington Post late Thursday, June 12.
“We are still verifying the number of dead, including those killed in the building where the plane crashed,” Vidhi Chaudhary, a top state police officer, told Reuters.
Ramila, the mother of a student at the medical college, told ANi her son had gone to the hostel for his lunch break when the plane crashed.
“My son is safe, and I have spoken to him. He jumped from the second floor, so he suffered some injuries,” she said.
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The only known surviving passenger aboard the plane was in seat 11A, next to an emergency exit, Chaudhary said, adding that there could be more survivors in hospital.
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