For Mistry Jignesh, 72 hours feel like an eternity.

Since Thursday evening, Mr. Jignesh and his family are having a civil hospital in Ahmedabad, trying to find a 22-year-old niece details-one of the 242 passengers who were killed in an Air India aircraft accident that day earlier that day.

The officials were telling him that he would return his niece’s body in 72 hours, which is normally necessary to complete the DNA matching – which ends on Sunday.

But on Saturday, he was told that it could take longer because the authorities are still looking for bodies from the accident site, claiming.

“When people are still missing, how can they probably complete the DNA process till tomorrow? What if my niece’s remains have not even found? Waiting is killing us,” he said.

Officials have refused to comment on Mr. Jignesh’s claim, but an officer of the fire department and a police officer told the BBC on the condition of anonymity that the discovery of passengers’ remains is still going on.

Additional Superintendent of Civil Hospital Rajneesh Patel said on Saturday that 11 victims were identified on the basis of their DNA samples, stating that their families were informed.

Boeing 787–8 Dreamliner, which was on the way to London’s Gatwick Airport, crashed into a fireball shortly after leaving the main airport in Ahmedabad and exploded in fireballs, which is India’s worst aviation disaster.

Only one of 242 passengers and crew survived on the board. When the aircraft hit a medical college hostel on a densely populated residential area near the airport, the aircraft hit the aircraft as at least eight others were killed on a densely populated residential area near the airport.

Things have moved forward rapidly.

The Government of India has ordered a high-level inquiry into the incident and ordered to inspect all Boeing 787 operated by the local carrier.

While the cause of the accident is unknown, the country’s aviation authority has stated that it is looking at all the possible causes of the accident, as well as foreign aviation experts to assist in investigation.

Back to the hospital, the doctors are running to complete the DNA samples of the victims so that they can start returning the body to their families.

But for families like Mr. Jignesh, time passes in dragging time.

Officials have talked about how the process of identifying bodies has been very challenging – and is being done in small batches – as most remains are beyond recognition.

“There is no scope for mistakes here – we have to ensure that each family gets the right body,” said HP Sanghvi, Directorate of Forensic Sciences in Gandhinagar City. “But DNA identification is a time -consuming process. In addition, given the scale of the disaster, there is also a possibility that many passengers were damaged due to extremely high temperatures of the explosion.”

Jaishankar Pillai, a forensic dentist at the hospital, told reporters that his team is trying to collect dental records from chartered bodies, as it could be the only source of DNA.

This wait is beyond suffering for families, many of which refused to talk to the media, saying that they just want to go back home with “whatever their loved ones are saved”.

“We are not in a position to say anything. The words fail us right now,” a woman, who was waiting outside the body with three members of her family, told the BBC impatiently, as she quickly slipped into her car.

Meanwhile, the officials of the BJ Medical College have started vacating several wards of the hostel, with whom the aircraft was killed. So far, the site of the accident, including the four wards – hostel canteens – has been completely evacuated.

But students living in other nearby wings of the hostel have also started leaving.

“In one of the wards, there are only three people left – all the people have gone back to their homes for now. They will leave soon, but by then, they are sitting there, they are haunted by what has happened,” his friends, who are also a student in college and wanted to be anonymous, said.

But between the college and the hospital – in the huge expansion of this city of more than seven million people – there are many others who are also from the tragedy.

The previous Kartik Kalawadia had heard about his brother Mahesh, who was on Thursday a few minutes before the accident.

This was a phone call that Mahesh made to his wife: “I am coming home,” she told her.

He never heard from him again.

Mahesh, a music maker in the Gujarati film industry, returned home from work that day and crossing the area when the plane fell down and crashed into buildings.

Mr. Kalavadia told the BBC that his brother’s last place was a few hundred meters away from the BJ Medical College before his phone.

The family has since filed a police complaint and made countless visits to the civil hospital. They have not found anything yet.

“The hospital told us that he has no record of my brother. We also tried to trace his scooter, but nothing came about it.”

“It seems that he has disappeared in thin air.”

At a press conference on Saturday, the Civil Aviation Secretary SK Sinha admitted that the last two days were “very difficult”, but assured that the investigation was moving in the smoothly and right direction.

But Mr. Kalavadia surprised whether none of these inquiries – in the plane crash, would help him find his brother, dead or living.

“We don’t know the answer, but we can hope that it’s a positive, I think,” he said.

Back to the civil hospital, the family continues to harass families.

When the BBC last said Imtiaz Ali on Thursday night, he was still denying that his family – his brother – his wife and two children – could have died in an accident.

But on Saturday, he seemed close to “accepting the truth”.

“With a few hours, we are now trying to decide what it will happen: will we bury him here or in Britain, where his wife’s family lives,” he said.

“For me, it doesn’t matter whether you know?” He continued, “Because he has gone, dust from ash and back to God.”

Additional reporting by Antiksha Pathania in Ahmedabad