Ahmedabad, June 14 -- Chief Fire Officer of Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Service Amit Dongre on Saturday said that 30 lives were saved in the rescue operations after the Air India plane rammed into a doctors' hostel.

On Thursday, the London-bound Air India flight AI171 crashed shortly after it tookoff from Sardar Vallabhai Patel International Airport, ramming into a doctors' hostel of BJ Medical College in Gujarat's Ahmedabad.

Speaking with ANI, Dongre said, "We received the message through the hotline at around 1.40 pm that day. We responded within 3 minutes. We started fire extinguishing and rescue operations simultaneously and 30 lives were saved during the rescue operation. People were rushed to the civil hospital with the help of 5...