While news broke from one Air India aircraft that pours against a residential area Last week in Ahmedabad, 56-year-old Raju Patel was not hurrying to the site for rescue operations. Raju BJ Medical College reached on 12 June within 15 minutes.
Among the first care providers, the businessman helped with the pulling out of victims and also recovered jewelry and cash from the rubble, which he later handed over to the police.
The London-Bound Air India Flight (AI-171) poured only a few seconds in the Medical College campus in Ahmedabad last week, in which 274 people were killed, Including 241 passengers And crew on board and more than two dozen others on the ground.
When Raju reached the site, everything he Witness was chaos, thick plumes of smokeRising flames and screams and moans. Without much fuss, he and others used clothing and mats that were supplied by the locals to wear the wounded to ambulances.
“When I reached the crash location within 15 minutes, I only saw thick black smoke. After a while, when the fire brigade partially brought the fire under control, we started saving,” Raju told Aajtak.
He said that many had been carved and fallen apart much unrecognizable. “The bodies we found were unrecognizable. With the help of clothing and mats provided by the locals, we wore the bodies to ambulances,” said Raju.
When rescue officials arrived, Raju took on the task of searching the rubble for jewelry, cash and documents.
“About three hours later, near the Atulyam building where the engine was crashed, we removed some debris using iron bars and found a few bags,” said Raju.
He recovered various items, including cash, passports, mobile phones, laptops, ID cards and jewelry and handed them to the police.
“We have found RS 60,000 in cash, foreign currency, laptops, mobile phones, ID cards and gold, including chains, bracelets, mangalsutras, rings and silver items. By 9 p.m. we had collected all the possessions of the passengers we could find,” Raju said further.
The Minister of Interior Harsh Sanghavi of Gujarat said that every salvaged item was documented and would be returned to the families of the victims.
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