Students Were Having Lunch When Plane Crashed on Hostel

Scores of students were having lunch at the mess of the BJ Medical College hostel when a part of the London-bound Air India plane carrying 242 people hit the building after crashing minutes after taking off from the nearby Ahmedabad airport.

- Ridhima Gupta

AHMEDABAD: Scores of students were having lunch at the mess of the BJ Medical College hostel when a part of the London-bound Air India plane carrying 242 people hit the building after crashing minutes after taking off from the nearby Ahmedabad airport.

Ayush, a resident doctor at Ahmedabad's Civil Hospital, said the crash sparked chaos at the college in Meghani Nagar. "Our friends and juniors have been seriously injured and are being treated at the Civil Hospital now," said Ayush.

Resident students said the mess caters to undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) resident doctors from nearby hostels. "Since the Civil Hospital is close by, there are multiple hostels around the area where both UG and PG students stay," said Dr Dhruvit, a PG student.

Dhruvit said the crash coincided with the lunch timings between 12:30 and 2:30 pm. "UG students from nearby hostels go there. When the incident occurred, there were around 150-200 people inside the mess, including resident doctors and mess workers."