Ahmedabad, June 12 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday that there was no chance of saving anyone in the London-bound Air India plane crash because of the high temperature caused due to the burning of almost 1.25 lakh litres of fuel in the aircraft.

Expressing condolences to family members of those killed, Shah said the exact number of deaths will be officially released only after DNA tests. Shah revealed that approximately 1000 DNA tests have to be conducted.

"The plane carried almost 125,000 litres of fuel, and due to the high temperature, there was no chance of saving anyone... I visited the crash site," the Home Minister told the media.

"This afternoon, Air India flight AI-171 crashed... The entire nation is grieving a...