India, June 15 -- Three days after the crash of the London-bound Air India flight AI-171 in Gujarat's Ahmedabad, authorities confirmed the identification of 80 victims through DNA matching - including former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani.

The total death toll of the Ahmedabad plane crash reached 270, including 241 of the 242 people who were onboard and remaining were the ones on ground.

Meanwhile, the Gujarat government declared a day of state mourning on Monday in Rupani's honour. A state funeral procession will take place in his hometown Rajkot later that evening.

Former Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani was among the 241 onboard passengers killed in the Ahmedabad plane crash on June 12, India's worst aviation disasters in decades. Vijay...