There are several water coolers with plastic glasses that have been kept outside for everyone — from the assembled crowd to the policemen managing the traffic to media persons — to get some respite from the scorching heat.

More than 290 people are feared to have died after a plane bound for London crashed into a residential area shortly after taking off from an airport in India’s western city of Ahmedabad.

Air India flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8 carrying 242 people, crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad on its way to London.