Who are some of the victims named following the Air India plane crash?

Tributes have been paid to victims of the Air India plane crash, including a couple and their three children and a man returning home after scattering his wife's ashes.

Flight 171 was carrying 242 people when it struck a medical college hostel less than a minute after taking off from Ahmedabad airport, in western India, bound for Gatwick on Thursday. Among those on board were 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian, the airline said.

It has confirmed 241 of those on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner were killed in the crash, with just one survivor - a British man from Leicester. Twenty-nine people on the ground were also killed, taking the total number of victims to 270, officials have said.

Tributes to those who died in the worst aviation crash in a decade are now being shared. Arjun Patoliya The 37-year-old had been to India to fulfil his wife Bharti's "final wish" to scatter her ashes in her hometown in Gujarat, after she died following a battle with cancer.

He was returning home to his young daughters in north London, according to a GoFundMe page set up for the girls. It says: "In a span of just 18 days, two young sisters - only 4 and 8 years old - have lost both of their beloved parents." Dr Prateek Joshi and his family Dr Joshi, a radiologist at the Royal Derby Hospital, was on the flight with his wife, Dr Komi Vyas, and their three children, Mirayal, Nakul and Pradyut.

In a post on Facebook, Derby Hindu Temple said: "We pray to Lord Shiva to grant eternal peace to the departed souls and to give strength to the bereaved family to bear this immense loss." Dr Joshi's colleague Dr Rajeev Singh described him as "a wonderful man, friend, husband and father, and an exceptional radiologist who was highly respected in his field". "It is hard to accept that a man with such a passion for life, and his beautiful young family, have been taken in this way," his statement continued.

"His passing has left a profound void, not only in his professional contributions but in the warmth and spirit that he gave to the world every day." Akeel Nanabawa, his wife Hannaa Vorajee and their four-year-old daughter The family of three from Gloucester were "widely loved and deeply respected.