Air India crash: DNA sample of ex-Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani has matched; Body handed over to family

BL Ahmedabad Bureau Updated - June 15, 2025 at 01:29 PM.

A total of 32 DNA samples, taken from the relatives of those killed in the Air India aircraft crash in Ahmedabad, have been matched till Sunday morning

Empty coffins brought at the mortuary of the Civil Hospital, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The London-bound Air India flight, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner (AI 171) with 242 people on board, crashed into a medical hostel and its canteen complex in the Meghaninagar area on Thursday afternoon, moments after taking off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport. | Photo Credit: KUNAL PATIL

The DNA samples of former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani — who was among the 241 passengers killed in Air India crash in Ahmedabad — has matched and his remains will be taken to his native at Rajkot. “Around 11.10 am, the DNA samples of Vijay Rupaniji matched,” said Harsh Sanghvi, Minister of State for Home, Gujarat government told mediapersons on Sunday afternoon.

A total of 14 bodies of those killed in the Air India aircraft disaster in Ahmedabad have been handed over to the relatives till Sunday Morning.

“The families from Udaipur, Vadodara, Kheda, Visnagar, Botad and Ahmedabad were those who took away the remains of their loved ones killed in the crash,” Rajnish Patel, additional superintendent, Ahmedabad Civil hospital told mediapersons.

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A total of 32 DNA samples, taken from the relatives of those killed in the Air India aircraft crash in Ahmedabad, have been matched till Sunday morning, he added without specifying the number of bodies that have come to the hospital from the accident-site. Estimates put those killed in the June 12 aviation disaster at 270.

Published on June 15, 2025 05:42