Working closely with UK on victims’ identities: MEA

India on Wednesday said it is working with the UK to resolve “concerns and issues” after a British newspaper reported that authorities wrongly identified the remains of two British victims of the Air India flight 171 crash before repatriating them.

- Rezaul H Laskar

The Boeing 787 crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12, killing 260 people—all but one of the 242 passengers and crew members aboard the aircraft and 19 on the ground. Fifty-two British citizens were among the dead. The aircraft lost power and crashed into the BJ Medical College hostel shortly after taking off for London.

Britain's Daily Mail reported on Tuesday that relatives of one victim abandoned funeral plans after discovering their coffin contained an unknown passenger's body rather than their family member. In another case, “commingled” remains of multiple victims were mistakenly placed in the same casket and had to be separated before burial last week.