Family of victims reach Nepal

Madurai/Trichy: The family members of the victims of the Nepal air crash reached Kathmandu on Monday afternoon.
While blood relatives of seven of the victims are there to bring back the bodies, one of the friends of an engineer, who also died in the crash, went to Kathmandu to receive the body on behalf of his family, as his bereaved widow is still in a state of shock. The eight member team is planning to return to Trichy by Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.
"We left from Chennai in an early morning flight and reached Delhi by 9.30am. From there, the flight took off in the afternoon and we managed to reach Kathmandu sometime after 3pm," said M V G Jawahar, a functionary of the Builders Association of India (BAI), Trichy chapter who is representing the family of M Manimaran.
P Kumar, Trichy MP and two more members of the BAI have also accompanied them.
The family members said that they are awaiting the authorities in Nepal to show them the bodies. While four of the bodies were identified with the help of the electoral photo identity cards they carried with them, the others are to be identified by the relatives.
Sources close to the development said that the visiting group however encountered some technical problems with "packaging the bodies" and this might delay the process a bit.
D P Balaji, the treasurer of the BAI's Trichy chapter said that they were making arrangements in such a way that the bodies must be individually handed over to the respective families by at least 7 am on Wednesday.
27/09/11 V Mayilvaganan & Dennis Selvan/Times of India

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