Raxa Modha, from Wellingborough, her two-year-old grandson, Rudra, and Yasha Kamdar were believed to have been flying back to England for a memorial service for Ms Modha's late husband. Jay Bapodra, who had known Raxa and her family "for decades" said she was "a pillar of the community".

Air India flight 171 crashed on a building minutes after takeoff near the airport in India’s western city of Ahmedabad.

Health officials have begun handing over the first passenger bodies identified through DNA testing, delivering them in white coffins in the western city of Ahmedabad.