Ahmedabad, June 13 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrived on Thursday evening at the site of the London-bound Air India aircraft crash in Ahmedabad to take stock of the ongoing relief and rescue operations.

The Union Home Minister was accompanied by Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, the Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, and Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi.

The London-bound flight, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, carrying 242 people, including 12 crew members, crashed shortly after it took off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport this afternoon, and rammed into a doctors' hostel in the Meghani Nagar area in Ahmedabad. As per DGCA, the crash occurred at approximately 1:30 PM IST.

Meanwhile, Ahmedabad Polic...