An Air India flight from Phuket bound for New Delhi received an onboard bomb threat on Friday and made an emergency landing back on the Thai island, airport authorities said. All 156 passengers on flight AI 379 were escorted safely from the plane.

"I can't believe myself how I came out of it alive, because for a while I thought I was going to die as well," Ramesh told Indian national broadcaster DD News.

Distraught relatives waited at Ahmedabad’s main hospital to claim the bodies of their loved ones for funerals.