Friday, October 02, 2009

Kerala charters Kingfisher flight to take Thekkady victims home

New Delhi: The Kerala government has chartered a Kingfisher Airline flight to take the bodies of the Thekkady boat tragedy to Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kolkata, a state government official said Thursday.
“The flight is expected to take off from Kochi (in Kerala) at 10 p.m. today (Thursday night) with the bodies and should reach Delhi by early morning tomorrow (Friday),” Kerala House public relations officer E. Sajeev told IANS here.
A double-decker boat owned by the state-run Kerala Tourism Development Corporation capsized at 5.15 p.m. Wednesday in the Thekkady lake in central Kerala’s Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary killing 41 people.
01/10/09 IANS/Thaindian.com, Thailand
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