More than 250 Air India crash victims identified

NEW DELHI: More than 250 people killed in an India plane crash have been identified through DNA testing, a hospital official said on Sunday as specialists near a final toll for one of the worst air disasters in decades.

All but one of the 242 people on board the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner were killed when the Air India plane smashed into a residential area of Ahmedabad, where at least 38 more died. Such was the level of destruction that more than two dozen believed killed remain unidentified 10 days after the jet came down. “The results of the DNA sample matches for 251 have arrived,” said Rakesh Joshi, medical superintendent at Ahmedabad´s civil hospital.