India, July 11 -- As Ahmedabad marks one month since the devastating air crash, the city's Civil Hospital on July 8 organised the last rites for some additional body parts of 19 victims retrieved from the debris left in the wake of the Air India flight 171 crash on June 12.

Ahmedabad Civil Hospital medical superintendent Rakesh Joshi said seven other families had opted to hold private ceremonies for their loved ones. But 19 families consented to hospital-conducted last rites when officials reached out to them to inform them about the retrieval of some more body parts of their family member.

"They had already said their final goodbyes once. To go through that agony again, to light the pyre or lower the body into the grave for the second ...