Bodies of five of 8 tourists who died in Nepal reach Kerala
The mortal remains of five of the eight tourists from Kerala who died of possible asphyxiation in their room at a mountainous resort in Nepal were flown here late Thursday night.
The bodies of Dubai-based engineer Praveen, his wife Sarnaya and their three children, aged between 4 and 9 years, were first brought to New Delhi from Kathmandu and then airlifted to Thiruvananthapuram.
The bodies would be kept at the Trivandrum Medical College hospital mortuary tonight and will be taken to Praveen's home at Chenkottukonam on the Kollam-Thiruvananthapuram border on Friday for the funeral.
Kerala Health Minister K K Shylaja visited the parents of Praveen Krishnan Nair and Prasannakumari, who were inconsolable.
The students and teachers of the Kochi school where the 3 children Sree Bhadra (9), Aarcha (7) and Abhinav (4) were studying, paid floral tributes at the framed photographs of their schoolmates after the assembly on Thursday morning.
The bodies of Ranjit, his wife Indu and son are ...