KATHMANDU: The bodies of the eight Keralites, who died due to possible asphyxiation in their room at a mountainous resort in Nepal, will be flown back to India on Thursday.
The bodies will be flown back in two stages. The bodies of Thiruvananthapuram natives-Praveen Krishna, his wife, and three children–will be first flown to Delhi and then to Thiruvanthapuram by 10:30 pm on Thursday.
The funeral will take place at Praveen’s home at 9 am on Friday. Praveen’s parents, Krishnan Nair and Prasannakumari, and his sister Praseeda live in their home near Chenkottukonam in Thiruvananthapuram.
The bodies of Kozhikode natives–Renjith, wife, and daughter–will be transported to Delhi from Kathmandu by 3:30 pm on Thursday and brought to Kozhikode in a 9 am flight from Delhi on Friday.
The Kerala government will meet the entire expenses for airlifting the bodies of eight tourists from the state who died at a resort in Nepal.
Tragedy struck a group of 15 tourists from Kerala when eight of them, including four children, died after they fell unconscious possibly due to a gas leak from a heater in their room at a mountainous resort in Makwanpur district, amidst cold wave in the Himalayan region.
Postmortem of the bodies was conducted at the Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu. Nepal government has formed a five-member team to investigate and submit a report within 15 days into the death of eight Indian tourists.
The deceased have been identified as Praveen Krishnan Nair (39), Saranya Sasi (34), Sreebadra Praveen (9), Archa Praveen, Abhinav Saranya Nair (9); Ranjith Kumar T B (39), Indulakshmi Peethambaran (34), Vaishnav Ranjith (2). Prveen and Ranjit, both IT professionals, were engineering college classmates and the tour was arranged after a get-together with old friends in Delhi, a family member said.
Praveen, who hails from Chenkottukonam in Thiruvananthapuram, was an engineer in Dubai, while his wife, Saranya, was staying in Kochi along with 3 children and was a nursing student.
Ranjit was working in an IT firm at Thiruvananthapuram, while his wife, Indulakshmi, was an accountant in a cooperative bank at Kozhikode, a family member said. Ranjit’s elder son Madhav had a lucky escape as he was sleeping in another room.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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