India, June 14 -- Ahmedabad Fifteen-year-old Akash Patni, who was sleeping under a tree near his family's tea stall close to the BJ Medical College hostel building in Ahmedabad's Meghaninagar area, is among those who have died on the ground when Air India's Ahmedabad-London flight turned into a massive ball of fire seconds after taking off from the city's international airport on Thursday.

"We have had the tea cart for the last 30 years. At the time of incident, it was business as usual for my mother and brother. I received a call at 1.30pm informing about the incident," said Akash's elder brother Kalpesh Patni, who does odd jobs for survival.

Kalpesh's aunt said that Akash and his mother Sita, 40, were around the tea cart when the plan...