New Delhi: The mortal remains of the 45 Indians killed in the Kuwait fire reached Kochi early today, June 14. At 50 workers died in the fire at a residential building in Mangaf on June 12.
Manorama Online has reported that Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, other ministers and hundreds of people waited at the airport to pay respects.
The bodies were brought back in the Indian Air Forces’s C-130J transport aircraft. Junior external affairs minister Kirti Vardhan Singh was aboard the aircraft.
The Manorama report noted that Kochi authorities took the mortal remains of 23 workers from Kerala, seven from Tamil Nadu and one from Karnataka. That of the others will be sent to Delhi on the same aircraft. Three of them belong to Andhra Pradesh, two to Odisha, three are from Uttar Pradesh and one each are from Bihar, Punjab, Karnataka, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Haryana.
The special IAF aircraft carrying the mortal remains of 45 people deceased in the fire mishap in Kuwait landed at Cochin International Airport.
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Forty nine people were additionally injured in the fires, 33 of whom are undergoing treatment in Kuwait.
An “electrical circuit” at the building where the fire started caused the accident, Kuwait’s fire force said. Most of the workers were employees of a firm managed by businessman K.G. Abraham who incidentally, according to Indian Express, co-produced a recent film on the challenges of Malayali workers in West Asia.
