Gandhinagar, June 17 -- Gujarat Minister of Health, Family Welfare and Medical Education Rushikesh Patel on Tuesday penned a heartfelt post about a couple who lost their lives in the ill-fated Air India-171 plane crash.

In his post on social media, Minister Patel wrote that the DNA matches of the deceased couple, who had been settled in the United Kingdom since 1978, were identified side by side.

https://x.com/irushikeshpatel/status/1934856707395420218

"Ashok and Shobhana Patel, a couple settled in the UK since 1978, tragically lost their lives in the Ahmedabad plane crash. Their son, Miten Patel, flew down from London to identify his father's body through DNA testing, a confirmation he received on Father's Day. While preparing to take...