India, June 13 -- Ahmedabad - The examination hall of the BJ medical college, behind the mortuary of Ahmedabad's civil hospital, was turned into a make-shift blood collection centre for DNA identification of the victims of Air India flight crash. Inside the heavily guarded mortuary are the bodies of those who died in the crash on Thursday afternoon.

Throughout Thursday night and until early Friday, families from states as far as Manipur, and nearby Maharashtra came in to give their blood samples.

Until 5 am on Friday, hospital officials said at least 200 people had given their samples. "We are expecting families of foreign nationals to come tomorrow," Kuldipsinh P Barot, from the medical college's forensic department, said.

Inside the ...