New Delhi, June 14 -- Fourteen-year-old Akash Patni was resting beneath a tree near his family's tea stall, located close to the BJ Medical College hostel in Ahmedabad's Meghaninagar area when tragedy struck and made him one of the many victims of one of the deadliest aviation disasters.

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Air India's Ahmedabad-to-London flight became a massive fireball shortly after taking off from the city's international airport at 1:39 pm on Thursday. Of the 242 people on board, nearly all perished - and among the few killed on the ground was young Akash, PTI reported.

"Akash was sleeping under a tree near the tea stall, which is adjacent to t...