All 242 people on board the passenger plane that crashed in India after taking off on a flight to London are believed to have died, AFP reports, writes UNN.
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City Police Commissioner GS Malik told AFP that "it appears no one survived the crash."
An AFP journalist reportedly saw people finding bodies and firefighters trying to extinguish smoldering debris after the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed into a building.
An AFP journalist saw medics using a cart to load bodies into an ambulance, and a burnt metal bed frame stood surrounded by burnt debris.
According to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the plane sent a "mayday" signal and "crashed immediately after takeoff" outside the airport perimeter.
A photograph released by India's Central Industrial Security Forces, a national security agency, shows the rear of the plane crashing into a building.
The plane crashed in the area between Ahmedabad Civil Hospital and the city's Goda Camp area.
The airport has been closed and all flights suspended until further notice, the operator said.