Overview

• On June 12, a London-bound Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed into the BJ Medical College hostel in Ahmedabad, killing 260 people and causing severe fragmentation of victims’ bodies.
• This week, six families collected a second package of remains after DNA matching linked fragments from 16 more bodies found during ongoing site clearance.
• Hospital authorities had distributed consent forms to next of kin—including passengers, crew members and local residents—to approve last rites for any further remains recovered.
• Of the ten families yet to receive new fragments, nine have granted permission for hospital-led ceremonies, while one family’s response remains pending.
• Recovered fragments vary from tiny tissue samples to single bones, underscoring the crash’s intensity and the painstaking forensic work required for identification.