India, June 13 -- In one of the worst aviation disasters in a decade, a London-bound Air India plane crashed moments after taking off from Ahmedabad. With 242 people on board, the Dreamliner crashed into a medical college hostel during lunch hours.

Police officer Vidhi Chaudhary said that the authorities are still "verifying the number of dead, including those killed in the building where the plane crashed," reported Reuters. A Gujarat-based founder who runs an NGO shared a heartbreaking post claiming that one of its scholarship students was killed when the plane hit the building.

"It is with deep sadness that we share the news that one of our Yuva Unstoppable's Scholarship students, Rakesh Diyora, studying at BJ Medical College, Ahmeda...