At noon on Friday, Manish Namdar entered the examination hall of Ahmedabad’s BJ Medical College, now converted to a DNA collection room for the next of kin of the more than 250 people who died in the Air India crash a day earlier.
Namdar and his family had driven 800km overnight, desperate to see the faces of his 32-year-old daughter Raxa Modha and one-and-a-half-year-old grandson Rudhra, who were on board the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner that fell on a nearby college student hostel on Thursday.
But officials told Namdar the bodies were charred beyond recognition and DNA matches would be needed before they could be released.
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