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Indian Forensic Scientists Identify 114 Air India Crash Victims - Minister

BANGKOK (Sputnik) - Indian forensic experts and pathologists have identified 114 of the 274 victims of last week's Air India passenger plane crash in the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state, Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi said on Monday.
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"Air India Crash Update: DNA reports as of 4 PM - 114 matches confirmed. Identification process ongoing," the minister said on social media.
NDTV news channel reported that doctors collected only 230 DNA samples from relatives of the victims, while the remains of 274 people were kept in the morgue of Ahmedabad's Civil Hospital. More than 60 bodies were handed over to their families.
NDTV cited doctors from the hospital as saying that each DNA test took 72 hours to complete, making the work of 36 forensic experts and 10 working groups as an "intricate and time-intensive process."
Air India's London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed minutes after taking off from the airport in Ahmedabad on Thursday. India's aviation authorities confirmed that 242 people were on board. Only one passenger survived. Indian media reported that the plane crashed into a medical students' dormitory, killing dozens more.
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