Mourners covered white coffins with flowers in India on Sunday as funerals were held for some of the at least 279 people killed in one of the world’s worst plane crashes in decades. Health officials have begun handing over the first passenger bodies identified through DNA testing,

A mother killed in the Air India plane crash tragedy was “very nervous” about the trip, a colleague has revealed. Abdhiben Patel, 40, known as Abdhi, died when flight AI171 smashed into a building shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad in Gujarat on Thursday.