AHMEDABAD: An Indian police source said on Saturday (Jun 14) that 279 bodies had been recovered from the site where a passenger jet crashed into a residential district of the city of Ahmedabad.
The revised toll from a senior officer in the city, who requested anonymity in order to speak to the media, raises an earlier figure of 265.
The official casualty number will not be finalised until the slow process of DNA identification is completed.