A Boeing 787 with at least 240 people on board crashed shortly after takeoff Thursday in the northwestern Indian city of Ahmedabad.
The Air India passenger plane bound for London crashed into a nearby medical college. The dead might include both passengers and those on the ground, the city police chief told reporters.
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