Ahmedabad, June 14 -- Fifteen-year-old Akash Patni wasn't aboard the doomed Air India flight nor inside the BJ Medical College hostel it crashed into-but he too became a casualty of India's deadliest air disaster in over thirty years, reported The Hindustan Times.

On Friday, a day after the London-bound jetliner crashed in Ahmedabad, Akash, who had been sleeping under a tree beside his family's tea cart near the hostel, was confirmed dead.

The Gujarat government said eight bodies had been identified and handed over, including four BJ Medical College students, two family members, and two others from nearby residential areas, though their names were withheld.

Officials later confirmed that two of the mess workers had died.

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