The family members of the eight air crash victims from here will be taken to New Delhi on Monday morning and flown to Kathmandu to identify the bodies, Tamil Nadu Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development Minister N.R. Sivapathi said on Sunday.
The State government was making all efforts to bring back the bodies, he told journalists here after conveying condolences on the government's behalf to the families.
Tiruchi MP P. Kumar will take a member of each family by a flight from Chennai to Delhi.
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and DMK president M. Karunanidhi have condoled the deaths.
Ms. Jayalalithaa said: “I am greatly shocked that most of the victims are Tamils.”
Mr. Karunanidhi said the relatives of DMK leaders, S. Regupathy and Tiruchi Selvaraj, were among the deceased.
