Bodies of three Malayalis killed in Germany building fire to reach Keralam on October 20

The bodies of the three Malayali youths who tragically died in an apartment fire in the German city of Bochum will be brought back to Keralam on Tuesday (October 20, 2026).

Intervening on the request of the victims’ families, the Indian Embassy has arranged for the bodies to be handed over to a local funeral home without conducting post-mortems. According to G. Devarajan, the Keralam government's special representative in Delhi, cargo booking formalities are being finalised, and the bodies will be flown out by Monday evening.