More than 200 people were killed on Thursday when an Air India passenger plane bound for London crashed in the city of Ahmedabad, India, G.S. Malik, the city’s police commissioner, said in an interview. There were 242 people on board, and it was unclear if any had survived. The crash is India’s deadliest aviation disaster since 1996 and one of the deadliest in recent history. Commissioner Malik said that 204 bodies have been recovered and that 41 people were being treated for injuries, a number that could include both passengers and people on the ground. He did not rule out the possibility of survivors. The plane crashed into a medical school dining hall, where at least five students died, the dean of the medical school said in an interview. It was not immediately clear if the five medical students were part of Mr. Malik’s tally of casualties. The plane crashed near the airport in Ahmedabad, in the state of Gujarat, in a residential area on the campus of a local medical college, according to an official from the Bharatiya Janata Party, the state’s governing party.

Full report : Flight carrying 242 people bound for London has crashed in Ahmedabad, India.