At least 204 people were killed when an Air India plane carrying 242 people crashed on Thursday just after takeoff in Ahmedabad, a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
It was India’s deadliest aviation disaster since 1996, and one of the deadliest in the world in recent history.
The plane was traveling to London, and the airline released the nationalities of those on board: 169 Indians, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese and one Canadian. It was not immediately clear if anyone onboard survived.
The plane crashed into the campus of a medical college, killing five students. The airline said that injured people were taken to hospitals, but it was unclear whether they were passengers or people on the ground.
Videos showed enormous plumes of smoke billowing from the crash site, where the blackened remains of the plane, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, lay in pieces.
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