KATHMANDU: The dead bodies of 12 Nepalese who had gone down with an oceanliner in Dubai yesterday are being flown home later today. However out of 12 only two bodies have been identified.

The two identified have been identified as Shesh Nath Yadav and Tilak Khumcho of  Mahottari district. Others whose bodies are being flown home are Ganga Bahadur Gurung of Dhading, Lila Paudel of Baglung, Mehdi Hussain Miya of Bara, Abbas Mohammed Sayeed of  Banke and Mansingh Khatri of Arghakhanchi.

Others are Rajiv Kumar of Mahottari, Shankar Bista of  Dang, Rishi Sharma of  Parbat, Jai Bahadur Pun of Rolpa and Ghanshyam Karki of Nawalparasi.

Meanwhile Ministry of Foreign Affairs is making arrangement to fly the deceased back. All those dead were working in the same company.