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The police chief in Ahmedabad says there appears to be no survivors from the Air India plane crash, according to reports from the AFP and AP news agencies.
The Air India plane bound for London with 242 people, including 12 crew members on board crashed minutes after taking off from India's western city of Ahmedabad.
“It appears there are no survivors in the plane crash,” Commissioner G.S. Malik told The Associated Press.
He added that with the plane crashing in a residential area with offices, “some locals would have also died.”
“Exact figures on casualties are being ascertained,” he said.
"The building on which it has crashed is a doctors' hostel... we have cleared almost 70% to 80% of the area and will clear the rest soon," a senior police officer told reporters.
The passengers included 217 adults, 11 children and two infants a source told Reuters. Of them, 169 were Indian nationals, 53 were Britons, seven Portuguese, and one Canadian, Air India said.
Reuters reported that 100 bodies have been recovered from the crash site so far.