" 'If I give up searching, I might never recover':
Families of air crash victims cling to hope.
Authorities say they're working to identify victims, but the scale of destruction has made the task immensely difficult.
'It's like trying to tell ashes apart from ashes'.
For families,
the wait has been excruciating.
Many have camped outside the hospital
- in cars or on the streets -
their anguished cries echoing through the corridors.
Just across the city,
another tragedy is still unfolding -
this one at the very site where the plane went down.
BJ Medical College Civil Hospital,
one of Ahmedabad's most respected institutions,
became ground zero
when the aircraft crashed into its hostel on Thursday.
Casualties have been reported,
but the full toll remains unclear.
As the news spread and it began to become increasingly clear that many students had been injured
- possibly even killed -
panic rippled across the campus.
Some began to run, others, too dazed by what they had witnessed, froze on the spot,
their sobs mingling with the screams.
By evening,
the badly damaged corridors stood silent.
Backpacks and half-eaten meals lay abandoned on tables where students had fled.
The air was still thick with smoke, sirens,
and the weight of what had just unfolded."
Ahmedabad: Families cling to hope after deadly Air India crash
Desperate families are waiting for answers as messages to loved ones keep delivering, but bodies are missing.
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