The king and the queen offer prayers for victims and families
King Charles III and Queen Camilla say they say “desperately shocked” in front of the plane crash that occurred today in India in which 230 passengers (53 of which British citizens) and 12 crew members who were aboard the Boeing 787 Dreamliner of the Air India directed to London precipitated on a residential area a few seconds from the take -off from the Indian city of Ahmedabad also rested by the Ahmedabad city also lost their lives. An amateur video – which shows the aircraft not to be able to take altitude and then explode between the buildings in a fireball – in which some people on the ground are also lost their lives.
You read it in a message with rarely so emotional tones released by Buckingham Palace. “Our special prayers and our deepest solidarity are for the families and friends of all those of various nationalities, who have been involved in this tragic accident”, write the sovereigns. Not without addressing “a particular tribute to the heroic efforts of the Indian emergency services, lavished in the rescue and in giving” help and support in the most excruciating and traumatic of moments “.
