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The impact occurred on a hostel for doctors: of the total, 5 are the victims on the ground
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The grave aircraft disaster that shook India today, Thursday June 12, 2025, increasingly assumes the contours of a catastrophe, when an Air India B-787 Dreamliner operating flight AI171 bound for London-Gatwick... more
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242 people on board. It was headed to London - VIDEO
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It would be a British citizen, a miracle in the Ahmedabad disaster
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