Authorities have started handing over remains of the victims of one of India’s worst aviation disasters after identifying some through DNA tests.

Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.

Around 30 minutes before an Air India jet crashed into a college hostel in India, Ravi Thakor, the cook in the hostel canteen, and his wife stepped out to deliver lunchboxes - leaving behind their two-year-old daughter and his mother.