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

Mourners covered white coffins with flowers in India on Sunday as funerals were held for some of the at least 279 people killed in one of the world’s worst plane crashes in decades. Health officials have begun handing over the first passenger bodies identified through DNA testing,

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