Members from the British Indian community gathered at a Hindu temple in London on Saturday (June 14) to mourn the victims of an Air India crash in western India that killed at least 270, of whom 20 had a personal connection to the temple.
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00:00Members from the British Indian community had gathered at a Hindu temple in London on Saturday
00:10to mourn the victims of an Air India crash in western India that killed at least 270,
00:17of whom 20 had a personal connection to the temple.
00:20The vigil at the Siddhar Shram, Hindu temple in London's Haro neighborhood,
00:25honored the people who died when the London-bound Boeing 787 crashed moments after taking off from Ahmedabad.
00:35Leaders from the Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Muslim, Parsi, Zoroastrian and other communities offered their prayers.
00:44A representative of King Charles also read out a message from him and offered Christian prayers.
00:50And today there's a special message from the king as well.
00:5466-year-old Jyotsna Shukla said her son's childhood friend, who was like a brother to him,
01:00was on the plane along with his wife and three children.
01:03I feel very bad because he's so young.
01:09I can't say anything because it's very, very bad.
01:15Young mother, father, they are alone now, only one son.
01:20And he is a doctor.
01:22Now he's in Gondheim.
01:28We just cannot bear how people must be feeling, especially those who have passed away and those who are on the ground as well.
01:35And all those families and relations and friends and everybody must be feeling.
01:40Only one of the 242 passengers and crew on board survived, while others were killed as the plane struck a medical college's hostel as it came down.
01:55The survivor, Viswash Kumar Ramesh, a British national, is being treated in India.
02:00Among those killed was Vijay Rupani, a former chief minister of Gujarat, who had visited the temple.
02:07Foreign Minister David Lammy has said that Britain was working with Indian authorities to provide support.
02:12Foreign Minister David Lammy, Baratt &