Bodies of Kenya bus accident victims to reach Kochi on Sunday
The bodies of five people from Kerala who were killed in a bus accident in Kenya on June 9 will be brought by a Qatar Airways flight to the Cochin International Airport on Sunday morning.
Those killed are Jasna, 29, from Guruvayur, her daughter, Ruhi Mehrin; Geetha Shoji, 58, from Cherukol, near Mavelikara; and Riya Puthanpurayil, 41, and her daughter, Taira, from Kanhirampara, Mannoor, in Palakkad.
The intervention of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan helped in the Centre relaxing rules on yellow fever vaccination certificate for relatives accompanying the bodies back to Kerala, says a release.
From Kochi, the bodies will be taken to the respective towns. The bodies will be received at the airport by Minister for Industries P. Rajeeve.
The five people were part of a group of 28 Indian tourists from Qatar who were on board the ill-fated bus in Kenya.
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