Anger grows as relatives plead with authorities to return bodies of their loved ones after the flight from Ahmedabad to Gatwick crashed in a fireball with 270 killed

Dreamliner, bound for London, issued a mayday call shortly before it crashed around lunchtime on Thursday, bursting into a fireball as it hit residential buildings, in one of the worst plane disasters the country has seen.

Grieving families held funerals in India on Sunday for their relatives who were among at least 279 killed in one of the world's worst plane crashes in decades.