PM Narendra Modi condoles loss of lives in MH17 crash

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday condoled the loss of lives in the Malaysian airline tragedy and said India stands with the families of victims in this hour of grief.[caption id="attachment_1624089" align="alignleft" width="380"]

PM Narendra Modi condoled the loss of lives in the MH17 crash. AP[/caption]"Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who lost their lives on board Flight MH17. We stand with them in this hour of grief," he said in a tweet.

Our thoughts & prayers are with the families of those who lost their lives on board Flight MH17. We stand with them in this hour of grief. — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 18, 2014

Earlier, a flight carrying Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been on the same flight route as MH17, according to a report in The Hindu."Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flight back to India, which took off from Frankfurt two hours before the crash and was in the same flight corridor, was rerouted", the report said. “There was no danger to the PM’s plane, but obviously the area that they would have flown over would have been the same", the report quoted an aviation official as saying.All 298 people on board the plane were killed yesterday after the jet was shot down by "terrorists" over war-torn eastern Ukraine near the Russian border.(With inputs from PTI)