India, June 13 -- The DNA test of samples collected from grieving families to identify their relatives killed in the deadly crash of a London-bound Air India flight will be expedited and completed within three days, a senior doctor overseeing the process said on Friday.

"It usually takes about 3 months to analyse an individual's DNA and issue the report. We have expedited the entire process and will do it within 72 hours," Saumil P Merchant, professor and head, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Narendra Modi Medical College, told Hindustan Times.

The tests would be conducted at forensic laboratories in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar.

He said the samples collected from the relatives will be matched against a total of 275 samples ...