Of the 270 dead, 241 were passengers and cabin crew on the London-bound flight. The remaining were killed when the plane crashed into a college hostel

More than 290 people are feared to have died after a plane bound for London crashed into a residential area shortly after taking off from an airport in India’s western city of Ahmedabad.

In a significant development related to the Ahmedabad plane crash, authorities have successfully matched the DNA of 31 victims. So far, 12 of the identified bodies have been handed over to their respective families.