Mumbai: Two days after the Air India 171 crash at Ahmedabad, 270 bodies have been recovered so far from the site of the accident at Meghaninagar close to Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport, Dr Dhaval Gameti, president of the Junior Doctors’ Association at the BJ Medical College, said to the media Saturday.
An Ahmedabad-London Air India flight crashed on top of a hostel of the BJ Medical College within 2 minutes after take-off at 1.40 pm. There were 242 persons on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, including crew members.
Of these, only one passenger, a British national of Indian origin, survived.
Several people from the eight buildings around the crash site are said to be unaccounted for with their families trying to figure if they are among the list of the deceased.
On Saturday, the Junior Doctors’ Association also released a statement saying that four MBBS students from the BJ Medical College, who were eating lunch in the hostel mess when the plane crashed, died.
Four of the family members of super speciality doctors, who were staying in the adjacent ‘Atulyam’ building, also died.
“Out of the 20 MBBS students injured in the accident, 11 have been discharged with stable condition,” the statement said.
“Additionally, the wife of one resident doctor from the Super Speciality department has been injured and is currently under treatment. The condition of all admitted patients is stable and they are recovering quickly,” it added.
(Edited by Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri)