(14 Jun 2025)
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Ahmedabad, India – 14 June 2025
1. Wide of relative of plane crash victim arriving at DNA sampling centre
2. Relative asking police for update, UPSOUND (Gujarati) Relative: “My name is in the list”, UPSOUND (Gujarati) Police: "I will make you meet the senior [officer]. Don’t worry. We will do the needful, step by step.”
3. Wide of media surrounding relative
4. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Rafiq Abdullah, Relative of crash victim:
“I am here to find the whereabouts of my children. Where are my little children? Did you [the authorities] recover them? You can tell this at least: how many children were recovered. I will have to ask questions. The government is not answering these questions.”
5. Wide of exterior of the DNA sampling centre
6. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Rafiq Abdullah, Relative of crash victim:
“Our family is extremely worried. Our children are gone. We are not able to understand anything. Please find out information about our little children. [Media should] ask [the government] about our children.”
7. Wide of exterior of the DNA sampling centre
8. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Rafiq Abdullah, Relative of crash victim:
“My children have been burnt to death. How will I survive now? They were my children, they were my world, my life.”
9. Pan from media gathered to exterior of DNA sampling centre
10. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Gulfam Chaudhary, Relative of victim:
“The family is not being allowed to enter the premises. At least let me have a look at my [dead] family members. Why aren’t you letting us see our family members? If my DNA will get matched, only then will they let me meet my family? Without DNA, my family isn’t there?”
11. Various of exterior of the plane crash site, charred exteriors visible
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of relatives of the victims of one of India’s worst aviation disasters have provided DNA samples to help identify the dead.
At least 270 people were killed in Gujarat State on Thursday, when an Air India flight fell from the sky.
Most bodies were charred or mutilated, making them unrecognizable.
Some relatives expressed frustration Saturday that the process was taking too long.
Authorities say it normally takes up to 72 hours to complete DNA matching and they are expediting the process.
“Where are my children? Did you recover them?” asked Rafiq Abdullah, whose nephew, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren were on the flight.
“I will have to ask questions. The government is not answering these questions."
Another relative persistently asked hospital staff when his relative’s body would be handed over to the family for last rites.
“Give us the body,” the relative insisted.
The London-bound Boeing 787 struck a medical college hostel in a residential area of the northwestern city of Ahmedabad minutes after takeoff Thursday, killing 241 people on board and at least 29 on the ground.
One passenger survived.
Investigators on Friday recovered the plane’s digital flight data recorder, or the black box, which was recovered from a rooftop near the crash site and likely will lead to clues about the cause of the accident.
India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau said it had started working with “full force” to extract the data.
AP video shot by: Piyush Nagpal and Shonal Ganguly
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